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Jim Al-Khalili Pathfinders

The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2012

Paperback

336

Standard

282484

978-0-14-103836-0

0-14-103836-5

History of science

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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.

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