History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

Islamic Astronomy, Mathematics, and Optics (1x15)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2003

Scholars in the Islamic world built extensively on the scientific foundations they adopted from the Greeks. This lecture examines some of the developments in the mathematical sciences and notes how these sciences were integrated into Muslim society. Various theories of vision are examined, and some contributions of medieval Muslim scholars still visible in modern science are also noted.