Pathfinders
Penguin Books 2012 Penguin Books Ltd 336 anglické Jim Al-Khalili 0141038365 273 gramů Brožovaná
For over 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic. In "Pathfinders", Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, including Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of ...