Byzantine inventions and innovations

[brober]

Another great post about a great civilization. Grazie mille.

[annar]

Thank you for your dedication to our medieval history and achievements, for an empire that is almost forgotten in history, that once issued the most solid, stable currency of the middle-ages! Let us not forget to mention that medicine was an area where they improved on greco-roman knowledge.
"The establishments of the Byzantine Empire resembled the beginning of what we now know as modern hospitals.The Medical Compendium in Seven Books, written by the leading physician Paul of Aegina, survived as a particularly thorough source of medical knowledge.
The first Byzantine physician was the author of the Vienna Dioscurides manuscript, created circa 515 AD Like most Byzantine physicians, this author drew his material from ancient authorities like Galen and Hippocrates, though Byzantine doctors expanded upon the knowledge preserved from Greek and Roman sources. Oribasius, frequently made note of standing medical assumptions that were proved incorrect. Several of his works, along with those of other Byzantine physicians, were translated into Latin
Another Byzantine treatise, that of the thirteenth century doctor Nicholas Myrepsos, remained the principal pharmaceutical code of the Parisian medical faculty until 1651"

[cobone]

I like the picture of the bridge you chose as an example adelfe..

[dsdemerssemanvaldosta.edud]

quidam graecus, would you agree that the Haggia Sophia was the eastern roman empire's most renowned achievement even though the empire contributed in so many wonderful ways to future humanity?