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Jim al-Khalili

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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

Ever wonder how the European Renaissance got its mojo? Spoiler: it wasn’t just dusty old Latin texts in monasteries. Somewhere between the fall of Rome and the rise of Da Vinci, a whole world of brainpower was quietly brewing in the Islamic world—saving, upgrading, and turbocharging ancient knowledge. Meet the real MVPs of science history.

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