Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The people who taught the world to count, to heal, and to find its way.Imagine a city of a million people where the streets are lit at night, the libraries hold more books than anywhere else on earth, and scholars travel for months just to read a single manuscript. The year is around 850. The city is Baghdad.Between the years 750 and 1500, across a world that stretched from Spain to India, Muslim scholars worked out the rules of algebra, drew maps that sailors used three centuries later, opened the world’s first real hospitals, measured the size of the Earth, and wrote a medical textbook that European universities used for six hundred years.Heroes of the Golden Age tells thirty of their stories - astronomers, doctors, engineers, mapmakers, and mathematicians - in short, vivid chapters for curious readers of ten and up, with a timeline, a glossary, and a tour of the twelve cities where they lived.Second edition, revised and reset. Book Fifteen of The New Muslim Companion - a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.
