Islamic Science and Engineering

• Main Author: Hill, Donald R (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 1993
• Series: Islamic serveys
• Subjects: Muslim scientists; Science > History > Islamic Empire; Engineering > Islamic Empire
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• Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Physical Description: xiii, 250 pages illustration 23 cm
• ISBN: 0748604553; 9780748604555; 074860457x

Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to the technology of medieval Europe, both by preserving earlier traditions and by adding their own inventions and innovations. This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of that achievement in the period 750-1500. Using drawings and photographs, as well as iconographic and archaeological evidence to enhance material from Arabic sources, it gives careful explanations of the underlying principles of scientific formula, machines and constructions examining the hist This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of the Muslim scientific achievement in the period 750-1500. It describes how Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to the technology of medieval Europe. Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to the technology of medieval Europe, both by preserving earlier traditions and by adding their own inventions and innovations. This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of that achievement in the period 750-1500. Using drawings and photographs, as well as iconographic and archaeological evidence to enhance material from Arabic sources, it gives careful explanations of the underlying principles of scientific formula, machines and constructions examining the hist This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of the Muslim scientific achievement in the period 750-1500. It describes how Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to the technology of medieval Europe.