This wonderful book is brimming with ideas from Islamic civilization. It begins with Al-Jadhri and his great clock, Al-Kindi and Ibn Al-Haytham and their revolutionary optical theories, experiments, and books, and continues with astronomers who traveled the world guided by the stars, and mapmakers who mapped the Earth's north at its bottom. Every page is a mine of fascinating information, with recipes for practical experiments and beautifully illustrated illustrations. The book contains answers to many questions that may cross your mind but have not been answered. You will discover a golden age of civilization that extended for nearly 1,000 years, from approximately 700 AD to after 1600 AD. This is because Muslims during the European Middle Ages were pioneers in diverse scientific fields, such as medicine, mechanics, cartography and the art of drawing, chemistry, education, engineering, architecture, astronomy, and mathematics in its various branches. No field of knowledge was absent from their interest or far from their minds in their investigations reinforced by scientific experiments.