![]() ![]() M-Tecnofantasy - is an animation technique, created by Francisco Macián Blasco, that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action similar to rotoscopy.According to historian Will Durant, a watch like device was invented by Ibn Firnas. ![]() Water and weight driven mechanical clocks, by Spanish Muslim engineers sometime between 900–1200 AD.Albucasis invented over 200 tools for use in surgery - many still in use today. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), better known in the west as Albucasis, is regarded as the father of modern surgery and is the most quoted surgeon of all times. Mercuric oxide, first synthesized by Abu al-Qasim al-Qurtubi al-Majriti (10th century).Note: Although these inventions were created on the Iberian Peninsula, that does not mean they were not made by people of Spanish heritage due to the area being part of the Islamic Empire. Inventions and discoveries from the Golden Age of Al Andalus Much of this knowledge was later translated by Christian and Jewish scholars in the Christian kingdoms of the Reconquista from Arabic into Latin, and from there it spread through Europe. The Islamic conquests of places such as Egypt, which was a major part of the Byzantine Empire, and other places which were centers of knowledge in earlier times, gave the Muslims access to knowledge from many cultures which they translated into Arabic and recorded in books for the use of their own educated elites, who flourished in this period, and took with them to the Hispania after it fell under Muslim control. While most of western and southern Europe suffered from the collapse of the Roman Empire, although declining, some regions of the former empire, Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula), southern Italy, and the remainder of the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, did not to suffer from the full impact of the so-called Dark Ages when education collapsed with the collapse of the empire and most knowledge was lost. Spain was an important center of knowledge during the medieval era. The following list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Spain. ![]()
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