The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

Jim Al-Khalili

339 pages • first pub 2010 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European RenaissanceThe Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al...

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