The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
by Jim Al-Khalili
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages336 pages
ISBN
9781594202797
Published
2010
Description
A myth-shattering view of the Islamic World's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of western science had thei...A myth-shattering view of the Islamic World's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of western science had their roots in the arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of western christendom lay in intellectual darkness.
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