ISLAMIC SCIENCE
* Islamic Science is the most relevant to European Science.
GREEK -> ARABIC -> LATIN -> HEBREW
* The Arabic Culture & language spread afar: to Portugal in the West and to the frontiers of China in the East and over many degrees of latitude.
* The most characteristic Arabic Scientific developments were in:
* ALCHEMY-medieval chemical art whose principal objectives were to find the panacea & to transmute base metals into gold.
> RHAZES- makes the earliest known suggestions for furnishing a chemical laboratory.
* MATHEMATICS
> ARABIC NUMERALS-an Indian system of numerical notation. It was invented in India, passed through Persia, to the Arabs, and was introduced in Europe in the 10th century.
> PERSIAN MOHAMMED ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi-persian mohammed where algorism, medieval word for arithmetic came from. He also developed the process of rectification.
* ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY- constant preoccupations of the Islamic World. It was developed in Spain.
> TOLEDAN-tables of proposition of stars which were drawn up in 1080.
* MEDICINE
> RHAZES-made the first distinction between measles and smallpox.
> AVICENNA-persian Philosopher and Physician. Called the "Prince of Physicians"
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