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Contributions of the Islamic World to Sciences

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Produced practical, intellectual benefits
- Produced observational instruments that greatly reduced margin for error
  - Predicting seasonal landmarks for succesful cultivation of crops
  - Accurately navigate on land or sea
  - Lead to invention of better instrument for Astronomy
Collected valuable informations all over the world lost during the "Dark Age"
- Expanded knowledge through birth of Trigonometry, Geometry, Navigation, Cartography, Instrument- making
  - Toledan tables, Sabian tables were made
  - Discovery of the Andromeda Galaxy
  - Explanation of the Parallax
Al- Ma'mun
- Built the first formal observatory
  - Inspired Muslim astronomers
    - Al - Battani
    - al - Farghani
    - al - Zarqali
  - Lead to a significant progress in Astronomy, Navigation, Mathematics and Sciences