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ISBN10: 1846141613, ISBN13: 9781846141614, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover First Edition Little used. Weight: 1 Language: English
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ISBN10: 1846141613, ISBN13: 9781846141614, [publisher: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, London] Hardcover Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine slightly sunned. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates, black & white diagrams and two black & white maps. Includes Notes, Glossary of Scientists, Timeline of The Islamic World from Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Era, and Index. xxix, 302 pages. For over 700 years te international language of Science was Arabic, this book recounts the history and achievements of the forgotten pioneers of the Islamic middle ages.
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ISBN10: 1846141613, ISBN13: 9781846141614, [publisher: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, London] Hardcover Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine slightly sunned. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates, black & white diagrams and two black & white maps. Includes Notes, Glossary of Scientists, Timeline of The Islamic World from Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Era, and Index. xxix, 302 pages. For over 700 years te international language of Science was Arabic, this book recounts the history and achievements of the forgotten pioneers of the Islamic middle ages.
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London: Allen Lane, Date: 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxix, 302 pages, [16] pages of plates: illustrations (some color), maps. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index. Subjects: Civilization, Western Arab influences. Discoveries in science. Middle Eastern History. Islamic & Arabic Philosophy. Discoveries in science Arab countries History. Discoveries in science Arab countries History. Genre: History. 2010. London: Allen Lane ISBN 1846141613 9781846141614 [IE]

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ISBN10: 1846141613, ISBN13: 9781846141614, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the 16th century, a 1,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun, created the greatest centre of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable, launching a golden age of Arabic science. Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the western world. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a polymath who outshines everyone in history except Leonardo da Vinci? The Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or the 13th-century Andalucian physician Ibn al-Nafees, who correctly described blood circulation 400 years before William Harvey? Iraqi Ibn al-Haytham who practised the modern scientific method 700 years before Bacon and Descartes, and founded the field of modern optics ...