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Ibn Hayyan's cientific method is where the scientific method that is taught and practiced today originates. His method was chemistry-specific, but it has now been expanded to apply to many different branches of science.
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The first psychiatric hospital and insane asylum of the Islamic Empire was built in Baghdad, furthering the exapansion of psychiatry that was, at the time, still in its early stages.
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Abu al-Qasim's 30-chapter medical treatise, Kitab al-Tasrif, covered areas from dentistry to childbirth and transformed medical practice during the Islamic Golden Era.
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Islamic mathematicians developed the method of triangulation that was used in geography and would, a few centuries later, be used to correctly estimate the size of the Earth.
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Al-Shifa was Ibn Sina's major work in philosophy that revolutionized the way people of the Islamic Empire thought.
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In the Book of Optics Ibn al-Haytham correctly explained how the eye receives wavelengths of light to see. His work made the practice of optometry more widespread.
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This discovery revolutionized medicine throughout the Islamic Empire and the world.
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Not only was the Great Mosque of Cordoba a major religious site, but it was also a hub for Islamic intellectuals during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi made major strides in trigonometry with his work on sines, cosines, and tangents. His mathematical discorveries are still practiced today.
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Also known as the House of Wisdom, the Bayt al-Hikma was a library, translation institute, and academy founded by Caliph Harun al-Rashid. The House of Wisdom served as a critical setting for discovery and scholastics by Islamic academics.
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Al-Khwarizmi developed algebra from the rudimentary form that Chinese mathematicians had formulated prior to his studies.
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Al-Razi, or Rhazes, published his work that described the symptoms and possible treatments for both smallpox and measles. The Treatise was translated and then published in Europe over forty times during the span of 1498-1866, making huge impacts in medical practice.
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The University of al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt served as the center of Islamic learning. Students there studied the Qur'an and Islamic law in detail, along with logic, grammar, rhetoric, and astronomy.
