Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
xvii, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm |
Note |
Col. maps on endpapers. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-235) and index. |
Contents |
Warriors of God -- The Earth is like a wheel -- The house of wisdom -- Mapping the World -- The first man of science -- "What is said of the sphere..." -- "The wisest philosophers of the World" -- On the eternity of the World -- The invention of the West. |
Subject |
Civilization, Western -- Arab influences.
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Learning and scholarship -- Arab countries -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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East and West.
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ISBN |
9781596914599 alkaline paper |
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1596914599 alkaline paper |
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