01058nam a22001937a 4500 20260617160100.0 260617b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781784531386 823 FRE Freely, John Light from the East / John Freely. London : I.B. Tauris , 2011. 238p. : 24cm. Long 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. Novel Fiction John Freely VC OFFICE 69344 69344 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-17 0 823 FRE VC382 2026-06-17 16:01:33 2026-06-17 VC OFFICE Books Received from VC office