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100 1 $aMasood, Ehsan.
245 10 $aScience and Islam :$ba history /$cEhsan Masood.
260 $aLondon :$bIcon Books,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 240 pages, [8] pages of color plates :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm
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500 $aTV tie-in.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
505 0 $aThe Dark Age myth -- The coming of the Prophet -- Building Islam -- Baghdad's splendour -- The caliph of science -- The flowering of Andalusia -- Beyond the Abbasids -- The best gift from God -- Astronomy : the structured heaven -- Number : the living universe of Islam -- At home in the elements -- Ingenious devices -- An endless frontier -- One chapter closes, another begins -- Science and Islam : lessons from history.
520 $aBetween the 8th and 15th centuries, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy to new heights. It was Musa al-Khwarizmi, for instance, who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad, drawing on work by mathematicians in India; al-Jazari, a Turkish engineer of the 13th century whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft, and the reciprocating piston; ibn Sina, whose textbook Canon of Medicine was a standard work in Europe's universities until the 1600s. These scientists were part of a sophisticated culture and civilization that was based on belief in God - a picture which helps to scotch the myth of the 'Dark Ages' in which scientific advance faltered. Science writer Ehsan Masood weaves the story of these and other scientists into a compelling narrative, taking the reader on a journey through the Islamic empires of the Middle Ages, the cultural and religious circumstances that made this revolution possible, and its contribution to science in Western Europe. He unpacks the debates between scientists, philosophers and theologians on the nature of physical reality and limits to human reason, and explores the many reasons for the eventual decline of advanced science and learning in the Arabic-speaking world. This eye-opening, enjoyable book, which complements and builds on the BBC television series, should be essential reading for anyone keen to explore science's hidden history and its contribution to the making of the modern world.
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