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Physicist Jim al-Khalili reveals how Islamic thinkers played a crucial role in explaining light and optics.
Playing a vital role in our everyday lives, technologies based on light are in use all around us. From art and science to modern technology, the study of light - and how it behaves and interacts with matter has intrigued scientists for over a century.
2015 marked the 1,000th anniversary of the Kitab al-Manazir (The Book of Optics), a seven-volume treatise written by the Iraqi scientist Ibn al-Haytham - a pioneering thinker whose views have been crucial to our understanding of how the universe came into existence.
We explore the evolution of astronomy, from Persian astronomer al-Tusi to Copernicus and the space scientists of today.
Jim al-Khalili reveals how scholars from the Islamic world played a crucial role in astronomy and navigation, influencing later astronomers in the renaissance.
Imagine trying to make sense of the universe before telescopes were even invented. In this episode of Science in the Golden Age, we examine ancient maps dating back to the 9th century at Istanbul's Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam
We explore the origins of algebra and mathematics that underpin the science of flight and the transport of the future.
None of the great achievements of modern science would be possible without the mathematisation of science and the development of algebra. The word algebra stems from the Arabic word al-jabr, which has its roots in the title of a 9th century manuscript written by the mathematician Al-Khwarizmi
We trace the path from modern technology back to the scientists who developed robots, water pumps and trick mechanisms.
The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in world history, shaping modern behaviour and every other aspect of human life.
The introduction of machines in the 17th century, often powered by water or steam, revolutionised food production, medicine, housing, and clothing.
In this episode of Science in a Golden Age, theoretical physicist, Jim al-Khalili examines the intricate automatic devices from the Islamic world, which paved the way for Europe's industrial revolution some 800 years later.
We explore how the work of medieval chemists has impacted the evolution of modern chemistry.
The chemical industry has reshaped the modern world - giving us new fuels, drugs and materials. But the methodology and principles of chemistry go back over a thousand years.
Between the 9th and 14th centuries, there was a Golden Age of Science when scholars from the Islamic world, like Jabir Ibn Hayyan and Al-Razi, introduced a rigorous experimental approach that laid the foundations for the modern scientific method.
We explore the links between medical research in the Golden Age of Science and the modern practise of medicine today.
Standing in one of the largest neonatal units in the world at Hamad Hospital in Qatar, you would not immediately be able to draw a link between the pioneering medical research being conducted and the work of physicists from the ninth century.
In this episode of Science in the Golden Age, theoretical physicist Jim al-Khalili guides us through a journey of discovery where he highlights the links between medical research in the Golden Age of Science during the ninth and 14th centuries and the modern practise of medicine today.
