Sunday, October 17, 2010

When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

By the eighth century, with western Europe languishing in its dark ages, the Islamic empire covered an area larger in expanse than either the Roman empire at its height or all the lands conquered and ruled by Alexander the Great. So powerful and influential was this empire that, for a period stretching over 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic.

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