Between the ninth and 19th centuries , Arabic - utter scholars translated Greek , Latin and even Sanskrit texts on theme such as medicament , mathematics and astronomy , foster a vibrant scientific culture within the Muslim world . Some of the most influential text are now available at theQatar Digital Library .
The subroutine library , a joint undertaking of the British Library and the Qatar Foundation , offers devoid access to 25,000 pages of medieval Islamic manuscripts . Among some of the most important text edition :
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices ( 1206 A.D. ) , which was inspired by an earlier , ninth - century translation of Archimedes ’ committal to writing on water clocks . Devices such as the “ Elephant Clock ” ( pictured below ) were the most accurate time - keeping pieces before the first pendulum clocks were built in the seventeenth 100 by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens .
Another water supply clock design features balls cast off onto a cymbal from a fowl ’s head .
This is one of the only three record copies of an influential treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes by Abū al - Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al - Bīrūnī ( 973 - 1048 ) , containing 122 diagrams .
A translation ( 615 AD ) of Ptolemy ’s numerical and galactic treatise , The Almagest .
An Arabic interlingual rendition of De Materia Medica , an encyclopedia of herbs and medication write in the first century AD by Pedanius Dioscorides , a Greek - born , Roman Catholic doc . This translation was completed in Baghdad in 1334 A.D.
See more ms at theQatar Digital Library .
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