Lourale ka Maoube

Attiyah al-Judami, the most well known of the Louralic scholars who is often credited with proving Heliocentrism.

The Lourale ka Maoube, alternatively referred to as the Kupokana Kwevakachenjera in Rwizi and generally translated as the Contestations of the Elders, was a period of scientific, mathematical, theological and philosophical advancement within the scope of the Bahian Golden Age. The Lourale is generally accepted to have started around the beginning of the fifteenth century with the publishing of the theological treatise Akrivia Nakosmos (Absolute truth of the universe) by Theodoros of Igitare, the first major publication which linked the new discipline of Astronomy and Theology with the goal of proving other religions wrong. This was quickly siezed upon by the Fetishist and Irfanic Houregeries, who remained hostile despite the relative peace that had emerged with the adoption of Djaladjie. Scientific progress was seen as a way to disprove the other religion, as warfare had become too difficult to execute against Djaladjic Houregeries. The end of the Lourale ka Maoube is generally marked in the mid seventeenth century, coinciding with the end of the Bahian Golden Age and beginnings of Toubacterie.

During the Lourale, Houregeries saw scientific and philosophical prowess as a mark of prestige and influence, resulting in the creating of large universities and financial support of scientific research. The Lourale saw the origination of several major modern scientific fields. While the Lourale's importance to Astronomy is the largest and most recognised, Louralic scholars also laid the groundwork for Paleontology and even put forwards arguments for what would now be referred to as Evolution. Toubacterie resulted in many of these manuscripts falling into the hands of the Eucleans, which strengthened the scientific prowess of the Euclean states.

History

Origins

Main article: Djaladjie

Advances

Astronomy

A copy of the original diagram for the Theodesian model, printed in 1615

Louralic astronomy is often regarded as one of the most fruitful eras in astronomical discovery, with many aspects of modern astronomy tracing their discovery to the Lourale ka Maoube. Many new celestial bodies, some of which significant, were first purported and catalogued during the Louralic era of astronomy. As well as this, Bahian astronomers were some of the first to theorise the heliocentric model of the universe, with famous Bahian theologian and astronomer Theodoros of Igitare proposing what is now the Theodesian model of the universe, one of the first heliocentric models to gain a mainstream support. The model combined already theorised elements with some of Theodoros' own thought. Theodoros combined the ideas of a physically correct and philosophical system, notably systems that had emerged during the Djaladije, with a mathematically correct model. While the Theodesian model was one of the first to propose heliocentrism, the model was eventually disproven by Attiyah al-Judami, who collected a series of vital observations through his telescope that eventually led to the Judamic model of the universe that is accepted to have been the foundation for many modern models.

Bahia would continue to be a hub for the improvements found in the telescope, initially invented by al-Judami to study the stars, and progress in the size, quality and magnification of telescopes led to a large increase in the observations of stars, with the biggest observatory yet seen in Bahia being constructed on the site of the University of Kambou around the 1520s.

Important figures

Attiyah al-Judami

Main article: Attiyah al-Judami