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Author Lyons, Jonathan.

Title The house of wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization / Jonathan Lyons.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  500 LYO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  909.09 LYONS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  909 L99    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  909.0982 LYO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  909.0982 LYONS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  909.0982 LYONS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  909.0982 LY    Check Shelf
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.
Learning and scholarship -- Arab countries -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
East and West.
ISBN 9781596914599 alkaline paper
1596914599 alkaline paper
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