Al-Jarazi was a Muslim who was an engineer and inventer during the 13 century designed works not seen until century’s later is profiled on history channel tonight.
While the ancient Greeks had amazing engineers like Heron and Ctesibius, the Islamic world had Al-Jazari–a prolific writer and a talented craftsman. Working in what is now modern Turkey, he produced books which featured fifty mechanical devices in six different categories; including water clocks, hand washing devices, machines for raising water and geared mechanisms. In 1976 The Science Museum in London, reconstructed one of Al-Jazari’s water clocks. It would take the shape of an elephant with an intricate clock mechanism which would chime automatically. For the first time watch as some of Al-Jarazi’s most important inventions are recreated and see how sophisticated the inventors of the ancient Islamic world had become.
nice site.
there is so much more to explore about our history & document the triumphs of Islamic civilisation to revive it again.
thanks for sharing.
dushwari
It is sad that Muslim scientists and inventors etc do not get promoted. Muslims invented many things and came up with many mathematical formulas etc. To the pint to do you know where the first computer virus came from? It came from Lahore, Pakistan. It was invented there!
As muslims we should promote our people! We are not duffers we have the ability to beat those others around!
It is sad that Muslim scientists and inventors etc do not get promoted. Muslims invented many things and came up with many mathematical formulas etc. To the pint to do you know where the first computer virus came from? It came from Lahore, Pakistan. It was invented there!
As muslims we should promote our people! We are not duffers we have the ability to beat those others around!
Peace nikaksa
Yes, but unfortunately we have the knack for abusing our gifts.
This is a nice documetary about the muslims’ golden age and how their presence in Spain and Italy undoubtedly ignited the Renaissance in europe. A much forgotten and deliberately deleted part of history nobody ever learns in history books and in schools.
There were great thinkers, philosophers, scientists and engineers, but their greatest contribution to mankind was the boost they gave to Greek knowledge previously rotting away in the libraries of Alexandria. Those books were carefully translated to the popular language of the day - Arabic and from there on later into Latin.
Muslims wholeheartedly accepted Greek science and slowly worked out the kinks, removing the philosophy**-“it just happens” and replacing it with proof-“why does it happen?”**).
Once they mastered the works of Socrates and Aristotle, they engaged themselves into these arts and then moved on from the task of simply commentating over to innovating. Names like Algebra, Averroes, Avicenna are just a few of the hundreds of greats who have contributed to this scientific revolution.
No credit should be taken away from the Arabs and Persians of the time who all of a sudden were thrown from an age of ignorance into an age of learning, simply because they decided to obey two words of a book that they adored so much. Those two words were Seek Knowledge.