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Monica’s Flashcards. B-Block CP World History. Astronomy Star-tech S 1.
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Monica’s Flashcards B-Block CP World History
Astronomy Star-tech S 1 • Studied sky as a source of time-keeping • Astronomical time-keeping told them when to pray 5 times a day • Astronomy determined latitude and longitude- using the stars • Tool for navigation • Astrolabe- instrument that calculated position of stars to find direction- adopted and perfected by Arabs • Sextant- more sophisticated version of the astrolabe • Sextant was the beginning of European exploration
Ibn al-Alam Springer S 1 • Composed astronomy handbook with tables • Cartography- geographical coordinates • Fixed stars • Wrote tables for calendars • Studied spherical functions • Died in Baghdad in 985 • Came from Baghdad
Cartography Wikipedia S 1 • Cartography is the practice and making of maps • A way that reality can be modeled • Map editing- selecting traits of objects to be mapped • Map projections • Arab geographer produced an atlas- included history of Africa, Indian ocean, and the far east
Astronomy Wikipedia S 1 • Study of stars in the sky • 10,000 manuscripts in world today • Anwa- observations on settings of particular stars
Mathematics Wikipedia Q+S 1 • “Islamic mathematics fully developed decimal place-value number system to include decimal fractions” • Began to see difference between algebra and geometry • Made advances in Greek geometry • Showed ingenious work in trigonometry
Important people Center for Islam and Science S 1 • Jabir IbnHayyan- one of the most important people in islamic science • He was a alchemist • Corpus (arabic writings)- collections of recipies for making metals into golds
Ibn al-Haytham Wikipedia S 1 • Born July 1st, 965 • Born in Basra- present day Iraq • Died March 6th, 1040 • He was a physicist and mathematician • Thought he could regulate flood of the Nile- in end couldn’tdo itso was put under house arrest • WroteBook of Optics • After house arrest, wrote about physics, math, and astronomy • Traveled to Spain- did many scientific experiments
Chemistry Wikipedia S 1 • The study of composition, property, and behavior of matter • Has to do with atoms and how they react with each other • The first Muslim alchemist was Khalid IbnYazid • Alchemist: forerunner of chemistry
Physics Wikipedia S 1 • Natural science that involves matter and motion through space and time • Fields of physics studied: optics, magnetism, mechanics, statics, dynamics, and astonomy
Important People(Abu Musa JabiribnHaiyan al-Azdi)History of IslamicScienceS 1 • Was the most famous Arabic alchemist • Was the author of a book on the Astrolabe • He was known for his great workings in chemistry and his many experiments • He observed magnetic forces
Islamic Geography About.comS 1 • Islam's only knew the local areas around them or from looking at a map • In 762 Baghdad became the capitol and became the central area of knowledge and many key geographical achievements • Islam's view of the world was more accurate than the Christians view at the time • Muslims were natural explorers
Early Science Islamic ScienceS 1 • Whole Greek learning's was rethought over by the Muslims • People copied and plagiarized the workings of Muslim Scientists • Discovered whole new concept of planetary motion
Mathematics WikipediaS 1 • Most importatnt contribution to mathematics was the development of algrbra • Omar kayyam wrote first book on algebra
People who traveled were astronomers, mathematicians, alchemists. Ect. that were full of knowledge on places, people, and technology • Wrote work on basis of geographic writing • Accurate surveying of land and at sea • One of the earliest geographers was al-Khwarizmi, a mathematician who drew a map of the known earth • calculated longitude and latitude of coordinates • Ibn Hawqaltraveled the world and wroteabout the places he visited and people he saw
Muslim geography reached apex with Muhammad as leader • Muslims had to travel to Mecca once in lifetime for the Hajj which gave them greater understandings of their area • Travel guides assisted trip to help lead the way