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Medical Advances

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

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  1. Medical Advances Standard 1.3 E.Q. What Medical advancements were achieved through the Muslim Region?

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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