URBAN REVOLUTION AND ISLAMIC SCIENCE

URBAN REVOLUTION

• a very important culture transition began
• generated new needs and resources and accompanied by a significant increase in a technological innovation.
• the beginning of the invention of the city.

Categories in the Urban Revolution

1. Craftsmen and Scientist- led to the search for other metallic ores to the development and encouragement of trade in order to secure specific metals
2. Copper and bronze
3. Sea transportation
4. Irrigation
5. Building
6. Dissimination of tecchnological Knowledge

ISLAMIC SCIENCE

• islamic culture is the most relevant to european science
• arabic culture and knowledge spread afar: portugal in west and to the frontier of china in the eastand over many digrees of latitude
• the most characteristics arabic scientific dev't. were in:

ALCHEMY- edieval chemical art,objective is to find the panacea

MATH- arabic numerals, persian mohammed ibn musa al khwarismi he develop the process of rectification

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY- constant pre-occupation, Toledan- tables of proposition, the ptolemic was replaced by this concentric system.

MEDICINE- Rhazes made the 1st distinction between mesles and small fox, Avicenna persian philosopher and phisician the great arabic contribution to medicine is te introduction of new vegetable drugs.