Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Istanbul - Reasons for stasis in Islamic science

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Alan Macfarlane discusses some of the reasons why after its early brilliance, Islamic science failed to sustain its pre-eminence.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 08:58
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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