01002nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200120007610000170008824500400010526000370014530000190018252005930020165000100079465000120080470000160081620260617160100.0260617b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781784531386  a823 FRE  aFreely, John  aLight from the Eastc/ John Freely.  aLondonb : I.B. Taurisc , 2011.  a238p.c: 24cm.  aLong before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-century Baghdad, enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. Through the astrologers, physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and alchemists of the Muslim world, this knowledge influenced western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas and Copernicus and helped inspire the Renaissance and give birth to modern science.  aNovel  aFiction  aJohn Freely