# Pathfinders

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- Book: [Pathfinders](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili/pathfinders) ([Pathfinders.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili/pathfinders.md))
- Authors: [Jim Al-Khalili](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-836-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2012-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders , Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, including Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci.