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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, and in this respect it serves a convenient chronological turning-point in the history of political events. The significance of the date for the history of mathematics, however, is a moot point. The research efforts of P. Duhem, A. Maier, M. Clagett and others have detected the significance of the 14th century for the later development. In his paper the author points out the contribution of the Arabic-language scientists who were, directly or indirectly, known to European scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. For this thesis the author gives two examples. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0862.00010].