About
Short essays, sourced in the notes
Nur means light. We write about the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age and what they worked out: how we see, how big the Earth is, how to solve for the unknown.
Each post is short enough to read in one sitting and says where its facts come from in numbered notes. Where historians disagree, we say so. Some posts are in Arabic.
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