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Books
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (New York: W W Norton, 1997)
Islamic Science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (World of Islam Festival Publishing Co, 1976)
Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge Through Cultures and Time by Scott L Montgomery (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Astronomy before the Telescope (British Museum, 1996) edited by Christopher Walker (British Museum, 1996)
Places to visit
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich - to see the artefacts shown in this gallery, and many others
The Royal Academy of Arts - for its exhibition (ends 12 April 2005) exploring 1000 years of Turkish civilisation
About the author
Emily Winterburnn is Curator of Astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and is also working on her PhD looking at the life of another 19th century scientist, John Frederick William Herschel.
