Analysis of the reasons for not forming the scientific discourse of Iran with Europe in the Safavid period

The Safavid era almost coincides with the developments of the European Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton. During this period, many Europeans traveled to Iran in the form of government representatives, businessmen, religious missionaries, and tourists; But there was no scientific discourse between Europeans and Iranian scientists. This study seeks to answer why this is the case. In answer to this question, it should be said that about 150 years from the beginning of the Safavid period, which coincided with the early decades of the seventeenth century, on the one hand, some of the most important new scientific theories were not accepted even in Europe. On the other hand, Europeans who traveled to Iran sometimes came to Iran with knowledge of their scientific and cultural capacities and did not necessarily know the technical details and new scientific achievements of the West. Also, in terms of technical knowledge, language and scientific concerns, there was not the same level between Iranians and Europeans. And this caused that the scientific discourse between Safavid Iran and Europe not to be established. The present article intends to study the subject with a descriptive-analytical method and to focus on library resources.