Scientists who worked on qibla determination
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni /ælbɪˈruːni/ (973 – after 1050) commonly known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", and the first anthropologist. Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of knowledge. Royalty and other powerful elements in society funded Al-Biruni's research and sought him out with specific projects in mind. Influential in his own right, Al-Biruni was himself influenced by the scholars of other nations, such as the Greeks, from whom he took inspiration when he turned to the study of philosophy. A gifted linguist, he was conversant in Khwarezmian, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and also knew Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. He spent much of his life in Ghazni, then capital of the Ghaznavids, in modern-day central-eastern Afghanistan. In 1017 he travelled to the Indian subcontinent and wrote a treatise on Indian culture entitled Tārīkh al-Hind (History of India), after exploring the Hindu faith practiced in India. He was, for his time, an admirably impartial writer on the customs and creeds of various nations, his scholarly objectivity earning him the title al-Ustadh ("The Master") in recognition of his remarkable description of early 11th-century India. (Wikipedia).
The House of Wisdom and the legacy of Arabic Science
Michael Faraday Prize LectureBy Professor Jim Al-Khalili Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Wed 30 Jan 2008 5.30pm - 6.30pm For more information visit http://royalsociety.org/events/2008/house-wisdom-arabic
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Number theory and algebra in Asia (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger
After the later Alexandrian mathematicians Ptolemy and Diophantus, Greek mathematics went into decline and the focus shifted eastward. This lecture discusses some aspects of Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematics, in particular the interest in number theory: Pell's equation, the Chinese rema
From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics
Number theory and algebra in Asia (b) | Math History | NJ Wildberger
After the later Alexandrian mathematicians Ptolemy and Diophantus, Greek mathematics went into decline and the focus shifted eastward. This lecture discusses some aspects of Chinese, Indian and Arab mathematics, in particular the interest in number theory (Pell's equation, the Chinese rema
From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics
Science in Islam, Part 4: Al-Ghazali incoherence
Support CaspianReport through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CaspianReport King and Generals: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw BAKU - Words such as algebra, algorithm, alchemy, alcohol, coffee, and more, derive from Arabic, and reflect on Islam’s contribution to
From playlist Science in Islam
The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science #7
The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greater Mediterranean and western Asian world. Islamicate scholars—meaning people influenced by Islamic civilization, regardless of their religious views—gave us terms such as “algebra,” “azimuth,” “algorithm,” “alcohol
From playlist History of Science
Rise and decline of science in Islam
Support CaspianReport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CaspianReport BAKU - With about 1.6 billion adherents, Islam is the second largest religion on Earth. Yet, its followers represent less than one percent of the world’s scientists. Only a handful of people from Muslim-majority count
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Physics 20B. Cosmology. Lec. 3: Revolutions
UCI Physics 20B: Cosmology (Winter 2015) Lec 03. Cosmology -- Revolutions View the complete course: http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/physics_20b_cosmology.html Instructor: James Bullock, Ph.D. License: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Terms of Use: http://ocw.uci.edu/info More courses at http://ocw.u
From playlist Physics 20B: Cosmology
The Color Helm published by Fiatelle, Inc. in 1940. It's a cardboard volvelle wheel chart for choosing color combinations. It's a helm! This is episode 42 of my series about antique calculating devices. See here for an online interactive version of the helm, and a printable make-your-own
From playlist Calculating Devices Review / HowTos
YOU CAN'T USE EULER'S IDENTITY TO PROVE THE ANGLE SUM IDENTITIES! | Tricky Parts of Calculus, Ep. 4
I give multiple proofs of the angle sum identities sin(x+y) = sin(x)cos(y) + sin(y)cos(x) and cos(x+y) = cos(x)cos(y) - sin(x)sin(y) from different perspectives. I stress that a very common presentation of these formulas based on Euler's identity e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x) is circular and
From playlist Math
The Unexpected Measure that Makes the Modern World Tick
Check out Serving Up Science on @PBSFood : https://youtu.be/Mi84o9ZKuXs We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ All of modern society relies upon a seemingly simple but surprisingly complex unit of measurement: the
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