Transcript ASTROLABE - Fresno Unified School District

ASTROLABE
• Used to figure
location, direction,
and time of day.
• Greeks invented it,
Muslims improved.
• Led to exploration
of the seas.
ASTRONOMY
• Built observatories
that led to better
understanding of
time and clock
making.
• Led to better ways
of calculating
distance for trade
and exploration.
GEOGRAPHY
• Ibn Battutah
traveled widely and
made maps along
the way.
• Al-Idrisi wrote a
geography book discovered that land
did not go all the
way around the
Indian Ocean.
MATH
• Combined the
Indian number
system and zero
with the Greek
science of math.
• Al-Khwarizmi wrote
a book called “aljabr” or “algebra”.
• Arabic numerals.
MEDICINE
• Ar-Razi discovered how
to treat deadly
smallpox.
• Ibn-Sina wrote a
medical encyclopedia one of the most famous
books in the history of
medicine.
• Created tests for
doctors to take before
they could treat people.
• Started the first
pharmacy school.
LITERATURE
• Poetry
• Short stories –
Arabian Nights is a
famous book today.
PHILOSOPHY
• Sufism had a strong
impact on Islam.
• Focuses on spiritual
issues.
ARCHITECTURE
• Blue Mosque in
Istanbul
• The Great Mosque
in Cordoba
• Taj Mahal in India