Jim Al-Khalili

Broschiertes Buch

Pathfinders

The Golden Age of Arabic Science

Beschreibung

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon.

Autor

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE FRS, is a physicist, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey. He received his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989 and has published over a hundred research papers on quantum physics. His many popular science books have been translated into twenty-six languages. He is a recipient of the Royal Michael Faraday medal and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. In 2016 he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. He lives in Southsea, Hampshire, with his wife Julie.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780141038360
• ISBN-10: 0141038365
• Artikelnr.: 34103503

Rezensionen

Brings alive the bubbling invention and delighted curiosity of the Islamic world ... his command of Arabic mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority Tim Radford Guardian