Lost Enlightenment
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Central Asia in the eyes of the townsfolk today is somewhat a god of forgotten poor states on the edge of the world, whose culture is absolutely unremarkable. But this opinion is erroneous, says S. Frederick Starr, a recognized specialist in the region, and masterfully debunks the myth of the backwardness and marginality of Central Asia. He introduces the reader to the most important role in the history of mankind with scientific discoveries, cultural achievements, conquests and other events that took place in the territory of modern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, as well as partially Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. It is no coincidence that Starr calls this territory Central Asia. It was there in the Middle Ages that one of the foci of enlightenment was located (many centuries before the era of the same name in France).
From the book you will learn, for example, that an encyclopedist al-Biruni discovered America three centuries before Columbus, that the “Canon of Medical Science” Ibn Sina, written at the turn of the age and X centuries, was the main textbook for 600 years In medicine, in all educational institutions of the world, including the most famous universities in Europe, that the famous shooting arches came to Gothic from Central Asian architecture and much more.
The publication is addressed to culturalists, historians, philosophers and all those who want to become a real expert and connoisseur of the richest culture of Central Asia
From the book you will learn, for example, that an encyclopedist al-Biruni discovered America three centuries before Columbus, that the “Canon of Medical Science” Ibn Sina, written at the turn of the age and X centuries, was the main textbook for 600 years In medicine, in all educational institutions of the world, including the most famous universities in Europe, that the famous shooting arches came to Gothic from Central Asian architecture and much more.
The publication is addressed to culturalists, historians, philosophers and all those who want to become a real expert and connoisseur of the richest culture of Central Asia
Author:
Author:Старр Стивен Фредерик
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-6042882-9-0
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