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020			_a9781784531386
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100			_aFreely, John
245			_aLight from the East _c/ John Freely.
260			_aLondon _b : I.B. Tauris _c , 2011.
300			_a238p. _c: 24cm.
520			_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.
650			_aNovel
650			_aFiction
700			_aJohn Freely
942			_cVC OFFICE
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