Light from the East : How the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World.
Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Gre...
| Основен автор: | Freely, John. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2010.
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Light from the East : How the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World. |
Съдържание:
- List of Plates; 1. Science Before Science: Mesopotamia and Egypt; 2. The Land of the Greeks; 3. The Roads to Baghdad; 4. 'Abbasid Baghdad: The House of Wisdom; 5. 'Spiritual Physick'; 6. From Baghdad to Central Asia; 7. The Cure of Ignorance; 8. Fatimid Cairo: The Science of Light; 9. Ayyubid and Mamluk Cairo: Healing Body and Soul; 10. Ingenious Mechanical Devices; 11. Islamic Technology; 12. Al-Andalus; 13. From the Maghrib to the Two Sicilies: Arabic into Latin; 14. Incoherent Philosophers; 15. Maragha and Samarkand: Spheres Within Spheres.
- 16. Arabic Science and the European Renaissance17. Copernicus and his Arabic Predecessors; 18. The Scientific Revolution; 19. The Heritage of Islamic Science; Notes; Untitled; Index.