Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science

Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science

Author: Jim Al-Khalili
paperback 302 Pages / Published: 2010
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Synopsis

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim Al-Khalili reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci.

 

'Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history ... Just as the legacy of Copernicus and Darwin belongs to all of us, so does that of Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham'
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Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141992969
Number of pages: 302
Weight: 260 g
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