29 Facts About Islamic technology

Medieval Islamic technology science had practical purposes as well as the goal of understanding.

Islamic technology doctors described diseases like smallpox and measles, and challenged classical Greek medical theory.

Major religious and cultural works of the Islamic technology empire were translated into Arabic and occasionally Persian.

Islamic technology science survived the initial Christian reconquest of Spain, including the fall of Seville in 1248, as work continued in the eastern centres.

Early Islamic technology period saw the establishment of theoretical frameworks in alchemy and chemistry.

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Islamic technology contributed to the Tables of Toledo, used by astronomers to predict the movements of the sun, moon and planets across the sky.

Islamic technology constructed a water clock in Toledo, discovered that the Sun's apogee moves slowly relative to the fixed stars, and obtained a good estimate of its motion for its rate of change.

Islamic technology developed trigonometry as a separate field, and compiled the most accurate astronomical tables available up to that time.

Ibn Bassal had travelled widely across the Islamic technology world, returning with a detailed knowledge of agronomy that fed into the Arab Agricultural Revolution.

Islamic technology wrote the Tabula Rogeriana, a geographic study of the peoples, climates, resources and industries of the whole of the world known at that time.

Islamic technology made use of maps from Greece, Portugal, Muslim sources, and perhaps one made by Christopher Columbus.

Islamic technology represented a part of a major tradition of Ottoman cartography.

Islamic technology mathematicians gathered, organised and clarified the mathematics they inherited from ancient Egypt, Greece, India, Mesopotamia and Persia, and went on to make innovations of their own.

Islamic technology mathematics reached its apogee in the Eastern part of the Islamic technology world between the tenth and twelfth centuries.

Islamic technology was the first to treat algebra as an independent discipline in its own right, and presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations.

Islamic technology has been credited with the invention of decimal fractions, and with a method like Horner's to calculate roots.

Sometime around the seventh century, Islamic technology scholars adopted the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, describing their use in a standard type of text fi l-hisab al hindi,.

Islamic technology society paid careful attention to medicine, following a hadith enjoining the preservation of good health.

Islamic technology wrote a 23-volume compendium of Chinese, Indian, Persian, Syriac and Greek medicine.

Islamic technology challenged Galen's work on several fronts, including the treatment of bloodletting, arguing that it was effective.

Islamic technology wrote commentaries on Galen and on Avicenna's works.

Islamic technology used the law to produce the first Aspheric lenses that focused light without geometric aberrations.

Islamic technology suggested that light was reflected from different surfaces in different directions, thus causing objects to look different.

Islamic technology argued further that the mathematics of reflection and refraction needed to be consistent with the anatomy of the eye.

Islamic technology was an early proponent of the scientific method, the concept that a hypothesis must be proved by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence, five centuries before Renaissance scientists.

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Islamic technology distinguished between sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate, and drew attention to the poisonous nature of copper compounds, especially copper vitriol, and of lead compounds.

Islamic technology devoted a whole volume to simples in The Canon of Medicine.

Islamic technology argued instead that an object acquires an inclination to move when it has a motive power impressed on it.

Islamic technology claimed that a projectile in a vacuum would not stop unless it is acted upon.