Scientific Illustration

collective-history:

The Timbuktu Manuscripts showing both mathematics and astronomy, a heritage of Astronomy in medieval Islam.

“The Ahmed Baba centre has been digitizing hundreds of texts in order to preserve the knowledge they carry and to share it online. Many intellectuals both in Mali and abroad are now worried about the fate of manuscripts which might not be considered in line with Islamic law by the militants”

Mali Islamists announce plans to keep destroying Timbuktu

Timbuktu’s Sidi Yahia mosque ‘attacked by Mali militants’

(via collectivehistory)