1001 Inventions

1001 Inventions

Author: Salim T. S. Al-Hassani

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1426209347

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Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.


1001 Inventions That Changed the World

1001 Inventions That Changed the World

Author: Jack Challoner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13: 164517820X

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We take thousands of inventions for granted, using them daily and enjoying their benefits. But how much do we really know about their origins and development? This absorbing new book tells the stories behind the inventions that have changed the world.


1001 Inventions that Changed the World

1001 Inventions that Changed the World

Author: Jack Challoner

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13: 9780764161360

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Presents a review of technological innovations and inventions, from the ancient world to the present day.


1001 Distortions

1001 Distortions

Author: Sonja Brentjes

Publisher: Ergon Verlag

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783956501692

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This book reflects on debates among historians of science, medicine and technology as well as Islamicate societies about fundamental questions of how we think and write about the intellec-tual and technological past in cultures to which we do not belong any longer or never were a member of. These debates are occasioned by the manner in which amateurs have taken bits and pieces from our academic narratives and those of our predecessors, stripped them of their richness in detail and their often agonizing efforts to interpret these details, and rearranged them in simplifying and often misguided fashion as outdated stories about glory, success, pri-ority and progress. Our texts are accompanied by reflections of professional curators and mu-seum directors about the difficulties of translating academic research into representations that attract different groups of visitors. They are followed by experiences in northern Europe with Islamophobic adversaries of any narrative about Muslim contributions to the sciences, medi-cine and technologies, and in one of the Gulf States with alleged reformers of the political, economic and educational landscape of the sheikhdom and their use of such amateurish narra-tives for blocking efforts of critical questioning of such self-congratulatory representations.


Ancient Inventions

Ancient Inventions

Author: Peter J. James

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 0345401026

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A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad


1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think

1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think

Author: Robert Arp

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 957

ISBN-13: 1476705720

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Arranged chronologically, presents the important thoughts and big ideas from the most brilliant minds of the past three thousand years, including St. Thomas Aquinas's five proofs of God's existence and the Freudian slip.


The Invention of Everything Else

The Invention of Everything Else

Author: Samantha Hunt

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 054708577X

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Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.


Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

Author: Libby Romero

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1426325002

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Profiles the life and work of a devout Muslim who was the first to hypothesize that vision occurs when light beams travel through the lens of a human eye.