The consensus is not leaning towards the removal of the Islamic material but towards rewriting it In answer to Steve the Science in MWE article should simple be removed as it only contains duplicates of material contained here J8079s the book you are planing on buying is a collection of Crombie s essays Crombie is an excellent historian but you should be aware that he is pushing a personal agenda that is no longer accepted in mainstream history of science Crombie is the strongest defender of the thesis that the Scientific Revolution took place in the High Middle Ages and not in the 17th century Whilst his work helped to radically change the picture of science in the Middle Ages his central thesis is as already said not accepted