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Science and Islam

Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries

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3/3. How Islamic scientific ideas permeated into the West in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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