A BBC documentary examining the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest phys...
A BBC documentary examining the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time. At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.
Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.
For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
Most people in the West will never have even heard of him. As a physicist myself, I am quite in awe of this man's contribution to my field, but I was fortunate enough to have recently been given the opportunity to dig a little into his life and work through my recent filming of a three-part BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists. Modern methods Popular accounts of the history of science typically suggest that no major scientific advances took place in between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance. But just because Western Europe languished in the Dark Ages, does not mean there was stagnation elsewhere. Indeed, the period between the 9th and 13th Centuries marked the Golden Age of Arabic science. Great advances were made in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, physics, chemistry and philosophy. Among the many geniuses of that period Ibn al-Haytham stands taller than all the others.
First shown on BBC4 05/01/2009 Professor Jim Al-Khalili presents Science and Islam
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no not Saudi Arabia. Saudi puts significant obstacles but do not forbid us. But the ones I know are Qatar, Kuwait and Eygpt. These countries I had experience with.
your stupid, it never says the earth is flat but the oposite. ignorant people like u are the reason the quran and islam get bad immpressions. people please dont belive people like this but find the truth on your own and ask god to guide u, if you are sincere, HE WILL
I do not consider myself to be British. I am Scottish. In any case, I did not vote for the current British government so I don't think it's right to associate me with their actions.
Incidentally, which Muslim countries is it that have refused you visa? Saudi Arabia I expect.
yes you are right, the Islamic organisation is not taken into importance and you know why now :)
As I told you we are refused in many Islamic countries, While we are in a more what we need is solidarity. you can say the the whole world is fighting us. The first one is Israel which occupies our land. Second the countries that support Israel such as EU, Russia, America and the whole UN. And now the Islamic countries :S
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no not Saudi Arabia. Saudi puts significant obstacles but do not forbid us. But the ones I know are Qatar, Kuwait and Eygpt. These countries I had experience with.
No one says the Ancient Egyptian Gods, were responsible for there Technology.
having such a heritage
what has happen to Arabs ?
where did they loose all these science ?
Incidentally, which Muslim countries is it that have refused you visa? Saudi Arabia I expect.
yes you are right, the Islamic organisation is not taken into importance and you know why now :)
As I told you we are refused in many Islamic countries, While we are in a more what we need is solidarity. you can say the the whole world is fighting us. The first one is Israel which occupies our land. Second the countries that support Israel such as EU, Russia, America and the whole UN. And now the Islamic countries :S
God help us LOL
you are not British?
100% truthtube