الحضارة العربية الإسلامية

is that the library guess so how will the dark hair just gonna have anything to do with us excuse me sorry about you what do you want we need to find out what impact the Dark Ages had on the modern world never was period of history so poorly named don't touch it's priceless and suppose someone's been filling your head with the usual nonsense thousand wasted years black hole in history am right yes awful she's always the same you assumed it was all nut disease death and destruction with marauding mobs of barbarians ripping down the good of former civilizations burning and plundering as they went nothing of any worth invented either sorry to bother you come on it's probably not worth it everyone knows that the Greeks and Romans invented everything anyway did they know and you're sure about that are you you know might just have something for you he seems to be out for tasks suppose follow me there we go hello asking me where are we going from darkness into light my young friend from Ocean onto land there are things you should know yes indeed now know lift it around just somehow it is now take look if you dare welcome to the Dark Ages or is it sugar none of those who am am ljust engineer and ingenious inventor this is dark ages look very dark that's because it's all matter of perspective my soon to be illuminated friend of course they've passed the world that went dark at all within civilization that stretched from Spain to China the golden rays of discovery and invention shown over everything what civilization the Muslim civilization my young friend through scholars and scientists of various faiths some of the most important discoveries known to man who made at this time discoveries that drew on knowledge of the Ancients but have more connections with your modern world than you could possibly ever imagine like what well all sorts of things I'm going to get picture of this knew it was good idea who are you allow me to introduce bit al-haytham great scientist whose ideas led to the invention of the camera even mentioned the camera laid the foundations for modern cameras by explaining how our minds work found way of projecting an image onto another surface through small hole in dark room later called camera obscura think of all the things that evolved from this discovery cameras cinema all share the same principle look out below who's that that's my good friend bus it Infernus who gazed up to the heavens passionate in his belief that man could fly full indeed he dared to dream about flying thousand years before the Wright brothers you know you all take your jet-setting holidays for granted so it only seems fair to remember pass he'd been her nurse stand by I've already for takeoff tale useful for them did someone call my old friend why don't you introduce yourself to my young guests am able cause him hours of robbery many call me the father of surgery did you actually do surgery back then course we do in fact many of the surgical tools that invented are still used in your modern hospitals excuse me patient needs my attention scalpel in that case I'll use cat cat cat from the gut of animals perfect for stitching up internal wounds the surgeons are still using it today sorry moustache hey she that's Mary Ann hasta la be one of the many brilliant women of time she made sophisticated estra leaves strong what astrolabes they share the sky in the starlings small flat plate you can hold in your hand think of them as ancient calculating or timekeeping devices today to have you watch the compass satellite navigation helping people and explorers travel the world so answered it's brilliant that's just the tip of the iceberg there were thousands of other inventions covering all areas of life and in the years that followed the influence spread across the whole of medieval Europe so you see wasn't stepped out after all how about you me what did you invent well don't want to be big-headed but made some groundbreaking advances an engineer and suppose significant discovery converted rotary motion into linear motion using crank and connecting rod it's essentially Thompson engines in fact I've no idea how the Industrial Revolution could have happened hundreds of years later without such device not that ever get the credit you see crowning glory was my amazing time telling machine my legendary it's yes thousands of components collected from different cultures around the world in him Radian Egyptian Chinese Wow how United Nations cool that is pretty cool does it actually tell the time Wow yes of course it wasn't for me thousands of people would be late for everything speaking of time you'd better get you back and another spread the word this is golden age and I've only shown you tiny part this one this time there are countless other scientists and inventions directly connected to your modern world it just gonna have to find out for yourselves