纪录片讲述了阿拉伯世界叙利亚、伊朗、突尼斯、西班牙等国在8世纪-14世纪科学史的贡献与地位。
《科学与伊斯兰 Science And Islam》剧集目录
第一集: 科学语言 The Language of Science
物理学家吉姆·阿勒哈利利(Jim Al Khalili)游历叙利亚、伊朗、突尼斯和西班牙,讲述8至14世纪伊斯兰世界科学知识的巨大飞跃。
它的遗产是有形的,代数、算法和碱等术语起源于阿拉伯语,是现代科学的核心——没有代数就没有现代
数学或物理学,没有算法就没有计算机,没有碱就没有
化学。
对出生于巴格达的阿勒哈利利来说,这也是一次个人旅行,在他的旅行中,他发现了一种多样而外向的文化,对学习着迷,对科学着迷。从伟大的数学家阿尔·赫瓦里兹米(Al Khwarizmi)到早期医学的先驱伊本·西纳(Ibn Sina),他为建立我们现在所熟知的代数数学传统做出了巨大贡献,他的《医学经典》直到19世纪仍在使用,他拼凑了一个中世纪早期伊斯兰科学家经常被忽视的成就的非凡故事。
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern science - there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.
For Baghdad-born Al-Khalili this is also a personal journey and on his travels he uncovers a diverse and outward-looking culture, fascinated by learning and obsessed with science. From the great mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, who did much to establish the mathematical tradition we now know as algebra, to Ibn Sina, a pioneer of early medicine whose Canon of Medicine was still in use as recently as the 19th century, he pieces together a remarkable story of the often-overlooked achievements of the early medieval Islamic scientists.