A01=Ehsan Masood
arabick roots
Author_Ehsan Masood
bath royal literary and scientific institute
BBC Radio
Brian Clegg
byzantium
Category=PDX
Category=QRAM3
Category=QRP
china
edward castell
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
Hot Science
Icon Books
Imperial College London
india
islam
istanbul
newton
ottoman
Research Fortnightly
rim turkmani
Science and Islam
sinan
The Great Invention
turkey
Product details
- ISBN 9781848310810
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Icon Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Science and Islam tells the story of one of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 CE.
Ehsan Masood is a senior editor with the science journal Nature, based in London. His other books include The Great Invention, on the story of how GDP became the world’s dominant economic indicator. For a decade he taught science and innovation policy at Imperial College London and he is also a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also presented Islam and Science, a three-part series for BBC Radio on science in today’s Islamic world.
