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- Physics_in_medieval_Islam abstract "The natural sciences saw various advancements during the Golden Age of Islam (from roughly the mid 8th to the mid 13th centuries), adding a number of innovations to the mere Transmission of the Classics (such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, Neoplatonism). During this period, Islamic theology was still encouraging thinkers to find knowledge, judging that the spirit of science did not come into contradiction with religious aspects of life. Many thinkers from this period, such as Al-Farabi, Abu Bishr Matta, Ibn Sina, al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham and Ibn Bajjah, had written their own books on metaphysics or written interpretations of Aristotle's Metaphysics. These works and the important commentaries on them were the wellspring of science during the medieval period. They were translated into Arabic, the lingua franca of this period. Islamic scholarship had inherited Aristotelian physics from the Greeks and during the Islamic Golden Age developed it further. However the Islamic world had a greater respect for knowledge gained from empirical observation, and believed that the universe is governed by a single set of laws. Unlike the Greeks who did not trust their senses and would develop knowledge through reason, and believed that different sets of laws could exist. Their use of empirical observation led to the formation of crude forms of the scientific method.The study of physics in the Islamic world started in Iraq and Egypt.Fields of physics studied in this period include optics, mechanics (including statics, dynamics, kinematics and motion), and astronomy.".
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- Physics_in_medieval_Islam comment "The natural sciences saw various advancements during the Golden Age of Islam (from roughly the mid 8th to the mid 13th centuries), adding a number of innovations to the mere Transmission of the Classics (such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, Neoplatonism). During this period, Islamic theology was still encouraging thinkers to find knowledge, judging that the spirit of science did not come into contradiction with religious aspects of life.".
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