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Season 01, Episode 02 The Empire of Reason

S01 E02

Jan 12, 2009
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Science And Islam

The Empire of Reason

Release Date: Jan 12, 2009
Episode Description

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries. He travels to Syria to discover how, a thousand years ago, the astronomer and mathematician Al-Biruni estimated the size of the earth to within a few hundred miles of the correct figure. In Cairo, he tells the story of the physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who helped establish the science of optics.

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