Renaissance #185 – Book of Ingenious Devices (Reconquista #6)

You really can’t understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which it was influenced by Islam. Arabic science was inextricably linked to religion. In contrast to Christianity, early Islam promoted scientific study, didn’t squash it. To understand the world, was to glorify the creation of Allah. And lots of early Arabic scientists and inventors left people like Da Vinci for dead. People like the Banu Musa brothers who published their “Book of Ingenious Devices”, which describes 100 inventions, in 850 CE.