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Muslim civilisation stretched from southern Spain as far as China. From the 7th century onwards, scholars of many faiths built on the ancient knowledge of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, making breakthroughs that paved the way for the Renaissance.
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Reading Level: Add the suggested reading level for this book.What do coffee beans, torpedoes, surgical scalpels, arches and observatories all have in common? Were Leonardo da Vinci’s flight ideas originals? Who devised the casing for pill capsules and where did Fibonacci learn to flex his mathematical fingers?All these answers can be found here in ‘1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World’.Over 370 pages of colour photographs and written in an accessible style for those with limited knowledge of either Islam or history.
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