India's scientific legacy is both vast and profound. Long before the rise of modern science, ancient Indian sages, ...

marginalizing the contributions of Muslim astronomers like Ibn al-Shatir in favor of European figures like Copernicus. The study is of significant implications to the history of science in the ...

Believed to have been invented in ancient Greece at the end of the 3rd century CE ... This generated much enthusiasm for the astrolabe and for Islamic science in general." In 1995, when research for ...

Born from revolution, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads and built a dynasty that led the Islamic world into a golden age of science, culture, and power.

The work draws a poignant parallel between ancient cosmography and contemporary crises ... by an astrolabe display that reveals the sophisticated fusion of science and craftsmanship in Islamic culture ...

Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had ... both lunar and solar eclipses. The Islamic world became the forefront of ...

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College explores sources of wonder in the upcoming exhibition Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World. Organized in collaboration ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient ... and for Islamic science in general.” ...