Inventions and Heritage of the Islamic era the elephant clock

alJazari's 800 year old automatic Elephant clock using water technology. An example of the Muslim orgins of modern automation and robotics.

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[wallidjan]

Muhammad is reported to have made the following statements on early Islamic medicine: "There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment" "Make use of medical treatment, for Allah has not made a disease without appointing a remedy for it, with the exception of one disease, namely old age", "Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically",

[wallidjan]

"The one who sent down the disease sent down the remedy."The belief that there is a cure for every disease encouraged Muslims at the time to seek out a remedy for every disease known to them.

[cannissolis]

Obviously a very ingenious man and a very beautiful clock, how sad it no longer exists! However the narrator states that, "he gave birth to the concept of automatic machines" which is clearly wrong. The Ancient Greeks were inventing and building automatic macines more than a millenium before this, as were the Chinese!

[wallidjan]

Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world

From Wikipedia,

800s - [milling technology] The water turbine is invented by Muslim engineers in the Islamic world.

800s - [astronomical instruments] Muslim astronomers invent the universal sundial[64] and universal horary dial[65][66] in Baghdad. The first navigational astrolabe was also invented in the medieval Islamic world, and employed the use of a polar projection system.

[wallidjan]

1000 - 1048 - [engineering, mechanics, physics] Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī was the first to realize that acceleration is connected with non-uniform motion.He also invents the laboratory flask, pycnometer,and conical measure.

[jtdyman]

were do islam get the sciencific information from the greeks and others thru conquests (war).

[wallidjan]

Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world

From Wikipedia,

889 - [navigation] Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad made the earliest known attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. According to Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī's The fields of gold and the mines of jewels, Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba(Palos de la Frontera) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures(see Pre-Columbian Andalusian-Americas contact theories)

[justanameize]

@wallidjan there are a lot of genius and very intelligent people in the arab world specially in morroco egypt iraq syria palestine and tunisia

[lukeabout]

Very cool!

Also responsible for a wonderful technical language that needs no interpretation, and is used to this day:

Algebra!

Question - I couldn't understand - how once the ball drops - how does it either - get replaced, or - how does it get sent back up to the top - to then be dropped again?

Again - thank you for posting this information.

[cannissolis]

Wallidjan, citing a list of Muslim or Islamic inventions does not make the incorrect statement by the narrator suddenly correct! Any great culture can quote lists of inventions and achievements.

On another note, natural remedies have been around since man has kept records (and assuredly before) even some animals know what plants to eat to improve some aspects of their health.

[jtdyman]

that could mean anything, but what as islam done for for the world lately. other than terrorism.