Physicist Jim al-Khalili reveals how Islamic thinkers played a crucial role in explaining light and optics.
From: Science in a Golden Age
Does the Muslim world need a scientific renaissance?
Remembering the Arab world’s era of scientific achievement, Jim al-Khalili asks if Islamic science can flourish again.
20 Oct 2015
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