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Science and Islam
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Artikel-Nr:
9781848310810
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
B format
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Ehsan Masood
Gewicht:
208 g
Format:
198x158x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
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.