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The house of wisdom : how Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance
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- Creator
- Jim Al-Khalili
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Penguin Books, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xxix, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780143120568, 0143120565, 9781594202797, 1594202796
- OCLC
- ocn727703460
- "First published in Great Britain as Pathfinders: the golden age of Arabic science by Allen Lane ... 2010"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A dream of Aristotle -- The rise of Islam -- Translation -- The lonely alchemist -- The house of wisdom -- Big science -- Numbers -- Algebra -- The philosopher -- The medic -- The physicist -- The prince and the pauper -- Andalusia -- The Marāgha Revolution -- Decline and Renaissance -- Science and Islam today -- Timeline : then Islamic world from antiquity to the beginning of the modern period