1. ISLAMIC SCIENCE
Did the Muslims just copy and preserve ancient Greek Science or did they add to it?
Abimbola Oyediran

2. Islamic Empire: beginnings

3. AL-MAMUN THE ‘CALIPH OF SCIENCE’
The fourth Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty.
Reigned for twenty years
Encouraged men of science and scholars to come and work in Bagdad
Sponsored the House of Wisdom. A library were translators and experts did their work
Was seen as a dictator because of his desire for knowledge and power

4. HUNAYN IBN-ISHAQ A Nestorian Christian Trained a medical doctor
One of the more prominent translators
Translated the medical text of Galen
Made a valuable contribution to medicine and anatomy.
Work was continued by his disciples & followers

5. OPTICS Ptolemy’s work on optics was criticised by al- Haytham
Intense light causes the eye discomfort.
al-Haytham proposed that vision was due light coming into the eye
The first to use rules to describe the differing angles of refraction.
His the Latin version book Optics was in use until the1500s.

6. ASTRONOMY
Less of a distinction between astronomy and astrology during this period
Because of religious practices, a significant understand of the motion of the stars were required
Many of the occupied regions had a been star-worshipers so there was a lot of interest in astrology

7. ASTRONOMY
Ptolemy mechanical model of the solar system became increasingly criticised.
Astronomers began asking questions about observed motion of planets
Al-Tusi was astronomer during the 1200s, who endevored to replace to equants of Ptolemy modal to more uniformed motion.
He also established trigonometry as a separate from of matematics.

8. Summary
The scientists of that period made considerable advances in medicine, Physics, astronomy and Mathematics.
Many of such works came into Europe through Muslim Spain then translated to Latin.
The scholars of the Islamic Empire did not just translate the Greek text. They applied the knowledge and questioned the theories. They spent years experimenting and making careful observations.
The advances were made in science during the Islamic Empire that show that

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