What inventions of the ancient Arabs do we still use today?
April 1, 2021 | education
| Of course, first of all, these are numbers. Although the Arabs borrowed them from the Indians, we know the numbers exactly as the Arab ones, reworked by them. Similarly, modern chess is a product of the Arabs. Indian chess is distinguished by its rules and complexity. It is believed that Yabir ibn Hayyan was the scientist who turned alchemy into a completely scientific chemistry, thus laying the foundation for it. The crankshaft and windmill also came to Europe from the Arabian Peninsula. There is also a lot of what seems to us common and not worthy of the word “invention” – coffee, three-course dinner, garden, carpets and even a check.
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