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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon.
336 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 26, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780141038360 |
Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 129 × 183 × 21 mm · 262 g |
Language | English |
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