Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science

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.

• | By (Author): Jim Al-Khalili
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0141038365
• | ISBN-13: 9780141038360