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 | The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Reprint Edition) by Jim Al-Khalili Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-14-312056-5 / 0143120565 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312056-8 / 9780143120568 A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western | |