World History: Cultural Diffusion in the Islamic World: Science, Mathematics, Libraries & Scholarship
Mathematics & Geometric Design
- Indo-Arabic Numbers
Bibliographic information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 177-179. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.
- Islamic Mathematics
Bibliographic information:
"Islamic Mathematics." Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
www.csames.illinois.edu/documents/outreach/Islamic_Mathematics.pdf.
Alchemy & Chemistry
- The Alchemy of Mineral Acids
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**Requires GBS ID Number and password for home access** - Alchemy: Islamic Alchemy
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Medicine
- The Medical Influence of Rhazes
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**Requires GBS ID Number and password for home access** - Medicine and Health
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Astronomy & Optical Science
- Arabic AstronomyBibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 186-188. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.
- Astronomical Tables: Applications and Improvements During the Middle Ages
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- AstrolabeBibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 167-170. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.
- Kamal Al-Din Al-Farisi’s Explanation of the RainbowScholarly article
- The Dark Origins of the Scientific Method (11:53) 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room studying the light that filtered in. Not only did he revolutionize how we literally see the world, he pioneered the scientific method that is now the backbone of modern science.
- Al-Hayatham & OpticsBibliographic Information:
Kiely, Robert. "Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World." Numbers: A Cultural History, ABC-CLIO, 2022, pp. 182-184. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8466100015/GVRL.
- Alhazen's Billiard ProblemNote: Alhazen = Al-Hayatham. This guy is incredibly influential.
Libraries & Scholarship
- House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma)
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**Requires GBS ID Number and password for home access** - TranslatorsBibliographic information:
"Translators" Islamic Philosophy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998.
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