UCL Events
Information for Staff
13:15 - 13:55 7 February 2013
Lunch Hour Lecture: The influence of Islam on science
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre access via Malet Place |
Darwin Building
(
Map)
Gower St |
London |
WC1E 6BT |
United Kingdom
Open to:
Academic |
Alumni |
Public |
Student
Admission: FREE
Ticketing: Open
Speaker information
Dr William MacLehose, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies
In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked or occasionally overstressed. This lecture discusses the impact that scholars from the Islamic world have made in the fields of medicine, astronomy, optics, geography, mechanics and many other disciplines. What role did the Arabic world have in the history of science? And how did Baghdad, Cairo and Islamic Spain preserve and expand the scientific tradition?
Contact
Catherine Dean
020 3108 3839 |
c.dean@ucl.ac.uk
Links
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