ARABIC - CHINESE - HINDU Flashcards
“submission to the will of God.” God Allah conveyed to Muhammad, a tradesman, a series of revelatoins which were to form the basis of the new faith.
Islam
Trigonometry, Sine, Tangent, and Co-tangent
Arabic
instrument used to observe the stars.
Astrolabe
Astrolabe
Arabic
Built before the Great Mosque of
Damascus
Arabic
considered to be one of the founders of Algebra.
Muhammad Bin Moosaa Al-Khawaarizmi
The word ‘Algorithm’ or
‘Algorizm’ is a corruption of his name or the name of the town Khwaarism (Kheva), in what is now Uzbekistan, where he was born.
Muhammad Bin Moosaa Al-Khawaarizmi
Arabic
examined the refraction of sunlight in raindrops and offered an explanation of the Genesis of primary and secondary rainbows.
Kamaaluddeen
Arabic
was associated with the story of the invention of the pendulum and the presentation of a water clock to Emperor Charlemagne.
Haaroon Ar-rasheed
Pendulum and Water Clock
Arabic
Science of Mechanics
Arabic
Camera Obscura
Arabic
Theory of Relativity in terms of time and space by means of mathematical equations and astrophysics.
Arabic
This was one of the earliest skills
attained by the Muslims.
Paper making
Paper making
Arabic
leading in weaving wool, producing silk, pottery, jewelry, and in leather and perfume industry.
Muslims
Arabic
“Oracle Bones”
Chinese
Place Number Value System
Chinese
Decimal or base ten system
Chinese
calculator that used sliding beads to help compute math problems quickly.
Abacus
Chinese
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, were done in
China
Invented kites and lanterns,
Chinese
The clock was first devised for astronomical purposes.
Chinese
Giant water clocks which rang every 15 minutes were also created.
Chinese
The compass as a wooden circle with markings on it, and a magnetic spoon on top, used for religious purposes.
Magnetic Compass
Scientists made gunpowder by mixing sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.
Gunpowder
Chinese
invented the earthquake detecting tool called seismoscope.
Zhang Heng
Seismological Detectors
Chinese
were made of bamboo spines that stick out in the shape of a semicircle with silk wrapped around it.
Fans
Chinese
were used by farmers to plant seeds into the soil at uniform depth.
Seed drills
Chinese
2 major cities in Indus civilization
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Mud brick buildings
Indus
public wells provided with regular supply of water for all the inhabitants and sanitation.
Indus
heliocentric theory of gravitation,
Indus
