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  • Date Submitted: 02/02/2010 10:39 PM
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Comparative Study

|                                   |ASTRONOMY                                     |CHEMISTRY                                     |MATHEMATICS                               |PHYSICS                                 |MEDICINE                                           |
|ISLAM                             |Astronomy was one of the earliest sciences   |In a world that knew no stronger acid than   |While the numerals are believed to have   |Sarton described the famous Muslim     |Muslim interest in health care is related to       |
|                                   |that attracted the attention of Muslims, as   |concentrated vinegar, the 8th century Muslim |originated in India, Muslims popularized |physicist, Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham     |Islamic teachings. Ethically, the human body is a   |
|                                   |early as the 3rd century (AH). Among their   |chemist Jabir discovered Nitric acid and     |them. Muhammad Bin Ahmed of the 10th     |(Alhazen) of the 11th century as:       |trust from God which should not be destroyed (for   |
|                                   |achievements is the discovery of the sun’s   |described the operations of distillation,     |century invented the concept of zero     |"The greatest Muslim Physicist and one |example, by committing suicide) or abused (for     |
|                                   |apogee (the points farthest from the earth in|sublimation, filtration, coagulation and     |(sifr or void from which the terms cipher|of the greatest students of optics of   |example, by drugs and intoxicants). Both           |
|                                   |the orbit of the moon). They drew a catalogue|crystallization. Abu Bakar Al-Razi (Rhases)   |and decipher were derived). This did not |all times.” His book Al-Manazir,       |preventative and remedial aspects of medicine are   |
|                                   |of maps of visible stars and gave them Arabic|of the 9th century was the first to describe |only replace the...