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World Service,22 Apr 2009,22 mins

The Secret Scientists - Part Two

The Wednesday Documentary

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at Islamic intellectual activity during the 9-13th centuries. In this programme he focuses on Al-Khwarizmi, the mathematician who introduced the numbers 0-9, and Ibn Al-Haytham who was the first person to realise how vision works.

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