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For more than 700 years, the global language of science was Arabic. In "Pathfinders", Rick al-Khalili remembers the neglected, uplifting innovators who helped shape our knowledge of the world throughout the golden-age of Arabic technology, including Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the current scientific technique over half of a millennium before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the best mathematician of the ancient world; and, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Local polymath to competing Leonardo da Vinci.