Why are there very few Spanish and Portuguese scientists or philosophers

>>2646087
because science is gay, philosohy is useless and the industrial revolution was a mistake

>>2646101
Not a good answer

I can name tens of French chemists, English physicians and German mathematicians but can't name a single Spanish one. Why?

Because the Reformation was an important step toward individual autonomy, putting an end to mental control and dogma

Of course, the Enlightenment was the culmination of this new search for truth, knowledge, and rational thinking.

>>2646112
because they had more important things to do than talking about useless shit

Inquisition me thinks

Regardless of the adverse circumstances prevailing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (es: crisis del Antiguo Régimen), the key to what was more and more coming to be perceived as “Spanish backwardness” was the survival of certain pre-industrial socio-economic structures, at the decisive moment when the Industrial Revolution began in England and the French Revolution occurred in France. This is also the crucial context in which, in the most advanced countries, science and technical progress began to be coordinated – up to then they had remained largely separate spheres. In time such coordination led to the emergence of "technology" in a full sense, and initiated feedback processes arising from the social need for innovation.
Resistance to modernisation in Spain was expressed in the strong antagonism between the Francophiles and their opponents the es:’’casticistas’’, who accused the Francophiles of all sorts of religious heterodoxy – Jansenism, Freemasonry, pantheism, freethinking, Voltairianism, agnosticism, atheism – as exemplified in the trial of Pablo de Olavide. Paradoxically, those among the clergy who became victims of persecution were the most scientifically educated group: the Jesuits,[24] who were expelled from Spain in 1767, having been blamed for the Esquilache Riots. Their schools and libraries were closed down and their members dispersed, although many of them based themselves in Rome and continued to publish scientific and literary works in Spanish.

>>2646087

africa (islamic land/arabic conquered land) starts at the Pyrenees

>>2646087
Too busy banging all the women to have time for that fruity stuff

>>2646087
I think that, by the time of the late scientific revolution in the 1800s and 1900s, both Spain and Portugal had already declined as great powers. Before that, during the apex of the Iberian power, the center of innovation was in Renaissance Italy, protected by rich princes there who could protect themselves from heresy accusations coming from the church and all these things. In fact, Italy remained richer than Iberia even when the latter was colonizing all over America and receiving rivers of gold from there. Northern Italy remains one of the richest regions of the planet till nowadays.

Portugal had much less pop. than all those countries. It´s a fact that they managed to be the first country to starts discoveries had a huge empire to manage world wide and the last european countryto lost their colonies. But their industrial revolution was late.
They have some nobel prizes (medicine, literature)

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Do the Islamic scientists and philosophers from Al-Andalus count? They're literally the reason why Yurop started making advancements in science.

>>2648518
>the al-andalus myths

>>2648544
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_European_scientists

Literally half of them are from Islamic Iberia.

>>2648560
5 of them are Muslim. Half on that list are English