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Renaissance #190 – The Battle of Covadonga (Reconquista #11)
The high point of the Muslim conquest of Spain was The Caliphate of Córdoba, established in the late 10th century by Abd al-Rahman III, who declared himself Caliph…
Renaissance #189 – al-Khwari'zmi, the father of Algebra and the Algorithm (Reconquista #10)
One of the most important scholars that al-Mamun employed at the House of Wisdom was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwari'zmi, the most famous Arabic mathematician and scientist. He was…
Renaissance #188 – The Library of Nineveh (Reconquista #9)
In the West, we have all heard about the great Library of Alexandria. But how many are familiar with the fact that Caliph Al-Mamun built one of the…
Renaissance #187 – Chemistry v Alchemy (Reconquista #8)
We delve into the distinction between chemistry and alchemy and ask where is the line in the sand that divides the two? Isaac Newton, after all, was a…