| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Ionia : the first physicists -- Classical Athens : the school of Hellas -- Hellenistic Alexandria : the museum and the library -- From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur -- Baghdad's house of wisdom : Greek into Arabic -- The Islamic Renaissance -- Cairo and Damascus -- Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain -- From Toledo to Palermo : Arabic into Latin -- Paris and Oxford I : reinterpreting Aristotle -- Paris and Oxford II : the emergence of European science -- From Byzantium to Italy : Greek into Latin -- The revolution of heavenly spheres -- The debate over the two world systems -- The scientific revolution -- Samarkand to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science -- Science lost and found -- Harran : the road to Baghdad. |
| Subject |
Science -- Greece -- History.
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Science -- Islamic countries -- History.
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Science, Ancient.
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Greece -- History.
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Islam and science.
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| ISBN |
9780307265340 |
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030726534X |
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