The House of Wisdom : How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
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- Author Jonathan Lyons
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Jonathan Lyons
For centuries following the fall of Rome. Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab cultures, however was thriving and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of British adventurer Adleard of Bath. The Arabs could measure the earth’s circumference (a feat not matched in the west for eight hundred years): they discovered algebra, were adopt at astronomy and navigation, developed the astrolabe and translated all the Greek scientific and philosoical text including, importantly those of Aristotle. Without them and the knowledge that travellers like Adelard brought back to West. Europe would have been very different place over the last millennium.
(9781408801215/8977)
For centuries following the fall of Rome. Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab cultures, however was thriving and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of British adventurer Adleard of Bath. The Arabs could measure the earth’s circumference (a feat not matched in the west for eight hundred years): they discovered algebra, were adopt at astronomy and navigation, developed the astrolabe and translated all the Greek scientific and philosoical text including, importantly those of Aristotle. Without them and the knowledge that travellers like Adelard brought back to West. Europe would have been very different place over the last millennium.
(9781408801215/8977)
