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The cover has visible markings and wear. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The pages are in Good condition but show signs of gentle use! Codes or product keys that accompany this product may not be valid. Fast Shipping in a Standard Poly Mailer!
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1594202796. B&W and Color; 6.75 X 1.25 X 9.75 inches; xxix, 302 pages; Hard cover has yellow spine with gold lettering. Light bumping to boards. DJ has slight rubbing, bumping; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures and maps. "A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction to study closely all of God's works, rulers throughout the Islamic world funded armies of scholars who gathered and translated Persian, Sanskrit, and Greek texts. From the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, these scholars built upon those foundations a scientific revolution that bridged the one-thousand-year gap between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science were actually the result of Arab ingenuity: Astronomers laid the foundations for the heliocentric model of the solar system long before Copernicus...." Notes; glossary; timeline; index.
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