The Islamic World - MT1 - Part 1 Flashcards

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What was science done during the Islamic world called? (2)

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  1. Islamic science
  2. Arabic science
  • these were inaccurate and misleading
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What does all good science have?

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A transcultural character

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What does Islamic science, Chinese science, Indian science, etc, all have the same and difference as?

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  • Same = fundamental basis of science

- Different = dominant regions

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Why is it impossible to determine the private religious beliefs of individuals now?

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Because there were many different scholars and scientists around at the same time

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What were the 4 developmental stages of the Islamic science?

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  1. Translation
    - Greek work into Arbic
  2. Assimulation
  3. New inquiries
    - asking questions others have not answered
  4. Revolutionary thinking
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What 3 aspects of Islamic civilization encouraged the development of science?

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  1. Islamic expansion
  2. Muhammed and the Quran welcomed education and inquiry into nature
  3. The wealth and unity of Islamic civilization supported the activities of a secular intellectual class
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What did the Islamic civilization do as it expanded?

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Collected the scattered remains of classical learning and translated them and built off from there

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What was the myth about the library?

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That it was destroyed by the Muslims army

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What library preserved some Greek work?

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Byzantine libraries

- the work was continuous

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What were 4 great ancient Chinese inventions?

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  1. Gunpowder
  2. Printing
  3. Compass
  4. Paper
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What did paper allow?

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The wide distribution of the written word

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What did Islamic science have?

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Alchemical ambitions

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What was alchemy?

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It was a past-practical, part-mystical attempt to provide what people wanted above all

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What 2 things do people want above all?

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  1. Wealth

2. Longevity

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What did the philosopher’s stone do?

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Turned common metal into gold

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What did alchemists do?

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They discovered and invented many things

17
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What did the alchemists invent? (2)

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  1. Apparatus, glass wear
    - alembic
  2. Distillation
18
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What does distillation do? (3)

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  1. Collects condensation
  2. Separates mixtures
  3. Makes the solution stronger by taking the water out
    - lead to making wine and beer
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What did the alchemists want to find?

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A universal solvent

20
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What can water and alcohol dissolve?

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Only certain materials

21
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What did Joseph Write discover?

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Isolated P
- took his neighbours urine and distilled it because it was the colour gold like the philosophers stone and he was trying to find it

22
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What is largely Islamic biology?

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Practical medicine

23
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What were Islamic medicines main contributions? (3)

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  1. Medical encyclopedism
  2. Preparation of drugs
  3. Use of drugs
24
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Who was Avicenna?

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Was the greatest Islamic intellectual

- he was a polymath

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What did Avicenna believe?
That medicine is a science
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What did Avicenna not believe in? (3)
1. Astrology 2. Polypharmacy 3. Magic
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What did Avicenna adopt?
Aristotle's concept of purpose in nature
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What did Avicenna base his anatomy on?
Galen
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What did Avicenna stress? (3)
1. Diagnosis 2. Disease symptoms 3. Disease names - these are distinguishing features of Islamic medicine
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What show symptoms for a specific diagnosis?
Aliments | - less holistic approach
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What works did Avicenna use that was ahead of his time? (4)
1. Dream analysis 2. Music therapy 3. Daily exercise 4. Clinical drug trials
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What did Ibnan-Nafis do?
He questioned Galen's authority on the movement of blood
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What did Ibnan-Nafis propose for the movement of blood?
A pulmonary circulation - moves blood from the right ventricle to the left ventricle via the pulmonary circuit - not by pores like Galen said