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Medical Advances. Standard 1.3 E.Q. What Medical advancements were achieved through the Muslim Region?. Medical Advances. Persian scholar named Al – Razi was a great physician of Muslim world.
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Medical Advances Standard 1.3 E.Q. What Medical advancements were achieved through the Muslim Region?
Medical Advances • Persian scholar named Al – Razi was a great physician of Muslim world. • Wrote an encyclopedia called the “Comprehensive Book” that drew on knowledge from Greece, Syrian, Arabia, and Indian sources as well as on his own experiences.
Math and Science Stretch Horizons • Reliance on scientific observation and experimentation, and the ability to find mathematical solutions to old problems. • Muslim scientist preferred to solve problems by conducting experiments in laboratory settings. • Muslim scholars believed that mathematics was the basis of all knowledge.
Math and Science Stretch Horizons • Al – Khwarizmi wrote a textbook in the 800’s explaining “the art of bringing together unknowns to match a know quality”. • He called this technique Al – Jabr or today, algebra.
Math and Science Stretch Horizons • Many of the advances in mathematics were related to the study of astronomy. • Ibn Al – Haytham revolutionized ideas about vision. • He showed that people see objects because ray pass from the objects to the eyes, not from the eyes to the objects as was commonly believed. • This was used in developing lenses for telescopes and microscopes.
