1001 Inventions : Muslim Heritage in Our World
By Unknown Author.
Description
This glorious book overflows with the great ideas of the Muslim middle ages. . . . I wish I had had this book fifty years ago."Adam Hart-Davis, photographer, writer, and TV science presenter of the BBC series What the Ancients Did for UsWhat do coffee beans, torpedoes, surgical scalpels, arches, and observatories all have in common?Were Leonardo da Vinci’s flight ideas originals?Who devised the casing for pill capsules, and where did Fibonacci learn to flex his mathematical fingers?The answers to these questions and more can be found in this book.1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritag...
ISBN(s)
0955242614, 9780955242618
