Technology&
Science in Golden Ages
A significant number of inventions were produced by medieval Muslim
engineers and inventors, such as Abbas Ibn Firnas, the Banū Mūsā,
Taqi al-Din, and most notably al-Jazari.
Some of the inventions journalist Paul Vallely has stated to
have come from the Islamic Golden Age include the camera obscura, coffee, soap
bar, tooth paste, shampoo, distilledalcohol, uric acid, nitric acid, alembic,
valve, reciprocating suction piston pump, mechanized waterclocks, quilting,
surgical catgut, vertical-axle windmill, inoculation, cryptanalysis,frequency
analysis, three-course meal, stained glass and quartz glass, Persian carpet,
and celestial globe.
For
science ,arly scientific methods were developed in the Islamic world, where
significant progress in methodology was made, especially in the works of Ibn
al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century, who is considered a pioneer of
experimental physics, which some place in the experimental tradition of
Ptolemy. Others see his use of experimentation and quantification to
distinguish between competing scientific theories as an innovation in
scientific method. Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) wrote the Book of Optics, in which
he significantly reformed the field of optics, empirically proved that vision
occurred because of light rays entering the eye, and invented the camera
obscura to demonstrate the physical nature of light rays.
Ibn al-Haytham has also been described as the “first scientist”
for his development of the scientific method, and his pioneering work on the
psychology of visual perception is considered a precursor to psychophysics and
experimental psychology although this is still the matter of debate.
source:http://islamichistory.org
Edited and Published by Sivar Aziz Hawler(26-5-2015)
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