Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world

This timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world covers the time period from the eighth century AD to the introduction of European science to the Islamic world in the nineteenth century. All year dates are given according to the Gregorian calendar except where noted.

Eighth century

Ninth century

The Conica of Apollonius of Perga, "the great geometer", translated into Arabic in the ninth century

Tenth century

Eleventh century

Twelfth century

Thirteenth century

Fourteenth century

Fifteenth century

Sixteenth century

Seventeenth century

See also

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Arabic Mathematics at the University of St-Andrews, Scotland
  2. Rashed, R (1994). The development of Arabic mathematics: between arithmetic and algebra. London, England.
  3. 1 2 http://amicable.homepage.dk/apstat.htm#discoverer
  4. Wilkins, John. Mathematicall Magick or the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In two books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers and Motions, London 1648, 204; also see a reprint of the same book in The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of John Wilkins to which is prefixed the author's life and an account of his works, 1802, vol. II, 201

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