Read and Download Science and Technology in Islam: Technology and applied sciences Online Book PDF ByA. Y. Al-Hassan Total Download 26 “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” –Paul Sweeney Synopsis Part II deals with agricultural science, alchemy, chemistry and chemical technology, mining and metallurgy military technology, textiles and manufacturing industries, mechanical technology, civil engineering, navigation and ship-building, medicine and pharmacy. Historians of Islamic science tend to limit their studies to the period up to the 16tb century but, Part II of this volume also deals with the continuation of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire, India and Iran.