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In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim alKhalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim AlKhalili reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn alHaytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; alKhwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan alBiruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci. 'Jim AlKhalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history ... Just as the legacy of Copernicus and Darwin belongs to all of us, so does that of Ibn Sina and Ibn alHaytham'Independent 'He has brought a great story out of the shadows'Literary Review 'His command of Arabic and mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority'Guardian 'A fascinating and userfriendly guide'Sunday Telegraph 'This captivating book is a timely reminder of the debt owed by the West to the intellectual achievements of Arab, Persian and Muslim scholars'The Times Jim AlKhalili OBE is Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, where he also holds the first Surrey chair in the public engagement in science. He was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for science communication in 2007, elected Honorary Fellow of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and has also received the Institute of Physic's Public Awareness of Physics Award. Born in Baghdad, Jim was educated in Iraq until the age of 16 and it was there, being taught by Arabic teachers in Arabic that he first heard and learnt about the great Arab scientists and philosophers.
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