HIST110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Thābit Ibn Qurra, Zij, Tigris
3 Mar 2015
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8th to 10th century, literature, translators given huge amounts of money to translate books to. Baghdad had the best doctors, artists, philosophers etc, great public libraries where all there works that were translated were placed. Added their knowledge to the world along with the translations. Paper and paper factories , after the battle of talas, Fatima dynasty of egypt also was rich in knowledge and books. Baghdad had ~70 translators, increasingly paid more and more, about /month. Second caliph gather all the classical literature and works, Islam knowledge (religion and literature) and foreign knowledge (math and natural science) Hakim great at everything, math / astronomy / chemistry / writing. Al-battani (created the sabain tables, timing of new moon, calculate length of eclipses) Al-biruni (calculated the earth"s circumference, fixed the point of mecca from any point of earth, first one to say the earth moved, first attempt to have laboratory experiments, )
