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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili (author)
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.
'Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history ... Just as the legacy of Copernicus and Darwin belongs to all of us, so does that of Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham'
Independent
'He has brought a great story out of the shadows'
Literary Review
'His command of Arabic and mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority'
Guardian
'This captivating book is a timely reminder of the debt owed by the West to the intellectual achievements of Arab, Persian and Muslim scholars'
The Times
Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS is a quantum physicist, author and broadcaster and one of the best-known science communicators in Britain. He holds a Distinguished Chair in Physics at the University of Surrey where he teaches and conducts his research. He received a PhD in nuclear theory in 1989 and has since published over 100 research papers. He has written twelve books on popular science, between them translated into over twenty-six languages, as well as his first novel, Sunfall.
Publisher : Penguin (26 Jan. 2012)
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0141038360
Dimensions : 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0141038360
Dimensions : 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
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