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Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science
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Jim Al-Khalili:
Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Julkaistu 2010
- For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim Al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who
helped shape our understanding of the world.
All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the sixteenth
century, after a I,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abo Ja'far Abdullah
al-Ma'mon, created one of the greatest centres of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and
philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable,
launching a golden age of Arabic science.
Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the Western world. Who has heard of Abu Rayhan al-Bīrūni, a Persian polymath and genius to rival Leonardo da Vinci? Or the Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire
Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or al-Khwarizmi, the father of algebra and the greatest mathematician of the medieval world? Or the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method 600 years before Bacon and Descartes and founded the field of modern optics long before Newton? Or even ninth-century physician al-Rāzi, who carried out some of the
world's earliest clinical trials?
The West needs to see the Islamic world through new eyes and the Islamic world, in turn, to take pride in
its extraordinarily rich heritage. Anyone who reads this book will understand why.
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