فيلم عن المسلمين ــ مترجم 1001 inventions

okay class I'm giving each group of you different era of History to research and the question is what impact did your era have on the modern world to Sarah your group has the ancient Greeks Ravi you've got the Romans and Danny's group gets yes bit of challenge for you you get the Middle Ages some even call it the Dark Ages boring see how you get on yes Miss so Serene yes you get the Renaissance is that the librarian guess so how are the Dark Ages going to have anything to do with us excuse me sorry to bother 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 yeah sort of you see it's always the same you assume it was all mud 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 no no no no no no go on be offy 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 you seem to be up for the task suppose could follow me me I've got just the book for you where are we going don't know ask him excuse me where are we going from Darkness into light my young friend from Ocean onto land there are things you should know yes indeed yes indeed now know left it around here somewhere here it is now take look if you dare what's going on Welcome to the Dark Ages or as it should be known the Golden Ages who are are you am Al jazari engineer and ingenious inventor thought you said this was the Dark Ages it doesn't look very dark that's because it's all matter of perspective my soon to be illuminated friend of course there are parts of the world that weren't dark at all but in civilization that stretched from Spain to China the golden rays of Discovery and invention Shone 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 were made at this time discoveries that Drew on knowledge of the ancient but have more connections with your modern world than you could possibly ever imagine like what well all sorts of things got to get picture of this knew it was good idea who are you allow me to introduce ibben Alam great scientist whose ideas led to the invention of the camera you invented the camera laid the foundations for modern cameras by explaining how our eyes work found way of projecting an image onto another surface through small Hall in dark room later called camera obscura think of all the things that evolved from this discovery cameras Cinema all share the same principle cool Look Out Below who's that that's my good friend abas ibin FAS who gazed up to the heavens passionate in his belief that man could fly whoa indeed he dared to dream about flying thousand years before the Brothers do you know you all take your jet setting holidays for granted so it only seems fair to remember abas iben fernas stand by I'm ready for takeoff he did forget one thing though tail useful for landing my back is there doctor in the house did someone call my old friend why don't you introduce yourself to my young guests am Abul kasim Al zahrawi many call me the father of surgery did you actually do surgery back then of course we did in fact many of the surgical tools that invented are still used in your modern hospitals excuse me patient needs my attention scalpel think may need some stitches in that case I'll use cat gut cat gut from the gut of animals perfect for stitching up internal wounds your surgeons are still using it today sorry mustache who's she that's Mariam Al asabi one of the many brilliant women of her time she made sophisticated astrolabes Astro what astrolabes they show the sky and the stars on small flat plate you can hold in your hand think of them as ancient calculating or timekeeping devices today have you watch your compass satellite navigation helping people and explorers travel the world science at its brilliant burst and all these things were developed during the Golden Ages 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 their influence spread across the whole of medieval Europe so you see wasn't so dark after all what about you me what did you invent well don't want to be bigheaded but made some groundbreaking advances in engineering suppose my most significant discovery converted rotary motion into linear motion using crank and connecting rod it's essential in pumps and engines in fact have no idea how the industrial revolution could have happened hundreds of years later without such device not that ever get the credit but my crowning Glory was my amazing Elling machine my legendary elephant clocker it's clock yes dozens of components collected from different cultures around the world Indian Greek Arabian Egyptian Chinese wow United Nations clock that is pretty Co does it actually tell the time wow yes of course if it wasn't for me thousands of people would be late for everything speaking of time we better get you back and remember spread the word this was golden age and I've only shown you tiny part of this wondrous time there are countless other scientists and inventions directly connected to your modern world just going to have to find out for yourselves no wait whoa did you yeah that wasn't quite so boring come on we're going to be late so what have we learned the Romans the Greeks the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution all have great relevance to us today where's T's group Justus our Intrepid Dark Ages group you probably had much harder time finding any connections with the modern world actually miss that's not strictly true