Al-Jazari
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Al-Jazari
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#2For the curious, book available at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/200133822/The-Book-of-Knowledge-of...
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#3In the gold old days, Tricks science was what we know now as Mechanics. This was a smart naming for this new science field, so people won't link it with Magic, which is forbidden in Islam.
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#4Please continue posting such links. I know some people would like only links about "hacking" (i.e. coding), but such articles really make me understand the "we are standing on the shoulders of giants" quote.
Especially about lesser advertised cultures such as the Islamic one.
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#5What alphabet is used for the letters in the diagrams[0]? It's not Arabic, and it looks sort of like Greek (or maybe Phoenician), but different.
0. Such as this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Al-jazari...
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#6There are numerous number of Muslim scientists who contributes a lot to modern mathematics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_M%C5%ABs%C...
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#7What alphabet is used for the letters in the diagrams[0]? It's not Arabic, and it looks sort of like Greek (or maybe Phoenician), but different. 0. Such as this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Al-jazari...
It is Arabic, for example "من بین الحوضین" on the beginning of the first line means "between the two tanks".
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#8I remember learning all about Al Jazari (and all of the other Muslim scientists, philosophers and doctors at that time) back in primary school. As an Arab I can't help but feel both proud, of such achievements, and yet so sad, because of the state of decline the Islamic contribution to the scientific advancement has known.
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#9For some reason, this guy never gets any love.
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#10What alphabet is used for the letters in the diagrams[0]? It's not Arabic, and it looks sort of like Greek (or maybe Phoenician), but different. 0. Such as this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Al-jazari...
It is Arabic, Islamic calligraphy[0] can be confusing, I'll reckon that.