ABSTRACT
The Nuri Hospital was the last glow of Muslim medical achievement. Nonetheless, the many observatories Muslim dynasts built from Cordova to Samaqand over the course of seven centuries immensely enriched astronomy through the thousands of individual observations recorded column by column, page after page in a hundred and more bound tables, or zijes. In the purest sense of creative originality, it is not exactly historically accurate to say Muslim mathematicians invented algebra. The lack of a mathematical shorthand did not impede Muslim mathematicians from making important breakthroughs in the simplification of computational methods. Conical geometrics applied to the study of vision led al-Kindi, Qusta ibn Luqa and the Muslim physicist ibn Sahl to study the behavior of light reflected from concave and convex mirrors. Muslim scientists made the leap from statics to the study of objects in motion, but it was purely theoretical and innocent of mathematization.
