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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
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Description for Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Paperback. For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world.
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim Al-Khalili reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci.
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141038360
SKU
V9780141038360
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99-99
About Jim Al-Khalili
Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE FRS, is a physicist, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey. He received his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989 and has published over a hundred research papers on quantum physics. His many popular science books have been translated into twenty-six languages. He is a recipient of the Royal Michael Faraday medal and ... Read more
Reviews for Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Brings alive the bubbling invention and delighted curiosity of the Islamic world ... his command of Arabic mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority
Tim Radford
Guardian
A fascinating and user-friendly guide to this whole scientific movement
Noel Malcolm
Seven, Sunday Telegraph
Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to ... Read more
Tim Radford
Guardian
A fascinating and user-friendly guide to this whole scientific movement
Noel Malcolm
Seven, Sunday Telegraph
Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to ... Read more