Science and Islam (Icon Science): A History

Long before the European Enlightenment, 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.

From Musa al-Khwarizmi, who developed algebra in ninth-century Baghdad, to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the Middle Ages.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 04/06/2017
ISBN: 9781785782022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d