http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna
The first to use Cannula to help a choking patient. Also contributed to the foundation of Unani (Greek-Arab) Medicine system.
Al-Jazari
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#12What 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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#13For some reason, this guy never gets any love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shatir
Yes, I know of him due to Tusi Couple, which I briefly read about when I was going through Copernicus's work.
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#14What 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".
I don't mean the caption at the top. I'm referring to the letters on the diagram itself: http://i.imgur.com/Bj31AxJ.jpg
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#15For some reason, this guy never gets any love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shatir
Yes, I know of him due to Tusi Couple, which I briefly read about when I was going through Copernicus's work.
Oldie but goodie: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/models.htm
The Tusi couple is like halfway down and the link right above it allows you to compare and contrast models.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is Arabic, for example "من بین الحوضین" on the beginning of the first line means "between the two tanks".
I don't mean the caption at the top. I'm referring to the letters on the diagram itself: http://i.imgur.com/Bj31AxJ.jpg
aha, well it does look like Old Turkic Alphabet[0], I am not sure.
0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#Table_of_ch...
Edit: Some characters don't seem to render properly, an Image seems more practical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#mediaviewer...
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#17What 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...
I have no idea. While searching for an answer I found this which is too interesting to not post. Especially the "table of alphabets". Perhaps some of the "old Hebrew" characters fit?
http://www.gentlewisdom.org/qaya/academic/hebrew/Phoenician....
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean the caption at the top. I'm referring to the letters on the diagram itself: http://i.imgur.com/Bj31AxJ.jpg
aha, well it does look like Old Turkic Alphabet[0], I am not sure. 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#Table_of_ch... Edit: Some characters don't seem to render properly, an Image seems more practical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#mediaviewer...
Do you know why he didn't just use Arabic characters? Based on a brief survey of the Arabic Wikipedia, it looks like Latin letters are standard for variables in math these days, but what was the reason for using non-Arabic characters back then?
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#19The Islamic Golden Age is pretty fantastic, not the first time I heard about it and usually a cause of pride among my muslim friends (and for good reason).
Too bad we're witnessing the Islamic Dark Ages right now.
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#20Interesting, thanks for posting. I new about semi-automatons created for the Turkish rulers for entertainment but not about Al Jazari.
I would like to add that the Persian, Arab and Turkish empires benefited greatly from Chinese, Indian, Roman and Greek math, technology and science that had been developed much earlier. This frequently gets glossed over or completely ignored.