Science and Islam
A History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Between 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. This book...
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Between 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. This book takes the reader through the Islamic empires of the middle ages.
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From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Science and Islam tells the story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 CE.
Autoren-Porträt von Ehsan Masood
Ehsan Masood is a senior editor with the science journal Nature , based in London. His other books include The Great Invention , on the story of how GDP became the world's dominant economic indicator. For a decade he taught science and innovation policy at Imperial College London and he is also a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also presented Islam and Science , a three-part series for BBC Radio on science in today's Islamic world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ehsan Masood
- 2009, 256 Seiten, Maße: 12,7 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: BBC
- ISBN-10: 1848310811
- ISBN-13: 9781848310810
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2010
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Englisch
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The fruits of the golden age of Islamic science are summarised briskly and engagingly in Ehsan Masood's 'Science and Islam', which was written to accompany a recent BBC television series ... Keen to dismantle the myth that Islam is fundamentally opposed to science , and [shows] that the words of Muhammad can be read as obliging rational inquiry.' Sunday Times. 'Why did science and learning decline so rapidly [in the Islamic world]? Ehsan Masood gives a viable answer to this question. Masood's eminently readable survey of science in Islam fills many gaps in [Jonathan Lyons'] 'The House of Wisdom' by providing the social and political context in which discoveries took place.' The Times. 'A delightful and approachable work, packed with surprises and treats, and offered by a writer whose assion for the subject does not daunt his objectivity.' Wharf
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'Science and Islam, a fascinating and clearly written book.' New Scientist
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