1st years Fwd: Contribution of Ibn Sina to the development of Earth Sciences
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| Subject: | Contribution of Ibn Sina to the development of Earth Sciences |
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| Date: | 2020-06-27 09:25 |
| From: | "The Qur'an Foundation" <thequranf...@gmail.com> |
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The Muslim Civilisation was outstanding in its outlook on the universe, humanity and life. Muslim scientists thought about the origin of minerals, rocks, mountains, earthquakes and water, etc. Ibn Sina (981 – 1037 C.E.), better known in the West as Avicenna, has a leading contribution in his famous Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and Natural Sciences – "Kitab Al-Shifa" (the Book of Healing). In Part 2, Section 5, the Article on Mineralogy and Meteorology, he presented a complete coverage of knowledge on what happens on the Earth in six chapters:
1. Formation of mountains; 2. The advantages of mountains in the formation of clouds;3. Sources of water;4. Origin of earthquakes;5. Formation of minerals;6. The diversity of the Earth's terrain.
His knowledge on meteorology, or what happens above the Earth, is also covered in six chapters:
1. Clouds and rain;2. Causes of rainbows;3. Features associated with sun reflection on clouds and rainbows;4. Wind;5. Thunder, lighting, comets and meteorites;6. Catastrophic affecting the earth's surface.
In Kitab Al-Shifa, Avicenna presented fundamental principles of geology in terms of the earth's processes, major events and long geologic time. These principles were later known during the Renaissance in Europe as the law of superposition of strata, the concept of catastrophism, and the doctrine of uniformitarianism*. These concepts were embodied in The Theory of the Earth by James Hutton in the eighteenth century. Kitab Al-Shifa, was also known during the Renaissance in Europe. It was an inspiring source of thought to the founders of geological thought in Europe (such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Steno in the seventeenth century, and most probably later on James Hutton in the eighteenth century).
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