Islamic Science


The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World
How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West
Light From the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam (NYU Studies in NE Civilization, 2)
New Perspectives on the History of Islamic Science, Volume 3
Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History (The Terry Lectures Series)
Science and Islam: A History
The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science (I.B.Tauris in Association With the Islamic Texts Society)
The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction
The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire
Pervez Hoodbhoy
An Islamic scientist describes his conception of how the universe began and will end. making an analogy with the passage of electricity in a wire. At the beginning there was disorder in the World of Spirits, just as electrons are disordered in a conductor. Then .... And finally. the soul is radiated into the Final World just like an electron radiates off electromagnetic waves.
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

If learning the truth is a scientific's goal, then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads ...more
Alhazen, The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3

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