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10 - The Arabic Scientific Revolution
Episode 11

10 - The Arabic Scientific Revolution

The Golden Age of Islam

June 24, 201848m 6s

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Show Notes

Did the Muslims invent the modern sciences that fueled the European Renaissance, or were they merely translators and transmitters of knowledge from the ancient Greeks?  In this episode, we consider the Islamic contributions to science in the early period of the Abbasid Caliphate and examine the claim that the Muslims developed the scientific method as we know it.