Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion

Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion

Volume 4

Iqbal, Muzaffar

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2012

576

Dura

Inglês

9780754629160

15 a 20 dias

1326

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Contents: Introduction; Part I: Greek into Arabic: The transmission of Hindu-Arabic numerals reconsidered, Paul Kunitzsch; The development of Arabic science in Andalusia, Juan Vernet and Julio SamsA (3); The heritage of Arabic science in Hebrew, Bernard R. Goldstein; Greek and Islamic elements in Arabic mathematics, J. L. Berggren. Part II Naturalization, Transformation, and Originality: The appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science in medieval Islam: a preliminary statement, A.I. Sabra; Situating Arabic science: locality versus essence, A.I. Sabra; Historical reflections of scientific knowledge: the case of medieval Islam, J.Len Berggren; Early Arabic critique of Ptolemaic cosmology: a 9th-century text on the motion of the celestial spheres, George Saliba; Al-Qushji's reform of the Ptolemaic model for Mercury, George Saliba; A medieval Arabic reform of the Ptolemaic lunar model, George Saliba; Arabic planetary theories after the 11th century AD, George Saliba; Al-KindA (R)'s commentary on Archimedes' The Measurement of the Circle, Roshdi Rashed; Science and philosophy in medieval Islamic theology: the evidence of the 14th century, A.I. Sabra; Astronomy and Islamic society: Qibla, gnomonics and timekeeping, David A. King; Too many cooks... a new account of the earliest Muslim geodetic measurements, David A. King. Part III: Islamic Science to the West: The influence of Arabic astronomy in the medieval West, Henri Hugonnard-Roche; Arab origin of European maps, Fuat Sezgin; Science as a Western phenomenon, Roshdi Rashed; Name index.
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Al Haytham;Ibn Al Haytham;ibn;Ibn Al Shatir;al-shatir;Ptolemaic Models;alhaytham;Thabit Ibn Qurra;haytham;Lunar Model;ptolemaic;Ptolemy's Model;models;Toledan Tables;thabit;TusI Couple;qurra;Nasir Al DIn Al TusI;yunus;Ninth Sphere;lunar;Medieval Islam;Longitude Difference;Habash Al Hasib;David King;Fixed Stars;Qutb Al DIn Al Shirazi;Muslim World;Ulugh Beg;Qutb Al DIn;Circle AB;Abd Al Rahman III;Ninth Century Text;Arab Islamic World;Arabic Mathematics