Arabic Sciences and Their Golden Age العلوم العربية وعصورها الذهبية
أنِّه ألميلينغ
Though
it is commonly believed that Arabic sciences were productive only for
500 years, their golden age spanned the 9th and the 11th centuries. The
most notable of the Arab geniuses were Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham,
Abu Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni and Abu Ali al-Hussein ibn Sina, better
known in the West as Avicenna. Ibn al-Haytham is ranked among the
greatest physicists between Archimedes and Newton, and Ibn Sina the
“colossus of philosophy between Aristotle and Descartes.” Ibn Sina also
wrote extensively on Greek, Persian and Indian medicine, conducted his
own research on contagious diseases and anatomy, and was well ahead of
his time with the insight that light is composed of particles, which
Newton later described and Einstein proved. He wrote, among other
things, al-Qanun fi al-Tib (the Canon of Medicine), which served as a
standard work not only in the Islamic world but also in Europe for the
next 600 years....
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