Science in a Golden Age

We ex­plore how the work of me­dieval chemists has im­pact­ed the evo­lu­tion of mod­ern chem­istry.

We trace the path from mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy back to the sci­en­tists who de­vel­oped ro­bots, wa­ter pumps and trick mech­a­nisms.

Re­mem­ber­ing the Arab world’s era of sci­en­tif­ic achieve­ment, Jim al-Khalili asks if Is­lam­ic sci­ence can flour­ish again.