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The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
Hikmah (also Hikmat, Arabic: حكمة, ḥikma) is an Arabic word that means wisdom, sagacity, philosophy, rationale or underlying reason.The Quran mentions "hikmah" in various places, where it is understood as knowledge and understanding of the Quran, fear of God, and a means of nourishing the spirit or intellect.
Born: Shinmen Bennosuke c. 1584 Harima Province or Mimasaka Province, Japan: Died: 13 June 1645 (aged 60–61) Higo Province, Japan: Native name: 宮本武蔵: Other names: Niten Dōraku; Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Harunobu
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO / j uː ˈ n ɛ s k oʊ /) [2] [a] is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
An untypically large miniature from the Dublin MS. Nujum-ul-Ulum ('Stars of the Sciences', c. 1570 CE), is a manuscript commissioned during the Adil Shahi rulers of Bijapur, India.
Immanuel Kant [a] (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy.
The group's full name was Persaudaraan Ilmu Dalam Al-Ma’unah (Brotherhood of Inner Power) or Al-Ma'unah in short. [4] The group had a website which explained that Al-Ma'unah was an organization "involved in the teaching of martial arts particularly the development of one’s inner power and the practice of Islamic traditional medicine". [5]