The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance -- Jim Al-Khalili, Paperback Scott Gorham but also to the people

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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance -- Jim Al-Khalili, Paperback Scott Gorham but also to the peopleA myth shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al Khalili, a leading British Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East