The House of Wisdom
How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$40.84
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
27 March 2012
Summary
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. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143120568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143120565 |
| Author: | Jim Al-Khalili |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 27 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 212mm |
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Jim Al-Khalili
Jim al-Khalili is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist, a trustee of the British Science Association, and a senior advisor to the British Council on science and technology. He has written a number of popular science books, which have been translated into thirteen languages so far.
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