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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J P Hogendijk; A I Sabra |
| ISBN: | 0262194821 9780262194822 |
| OCLC Number: | 50252039 |
| Description: | xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The transmission of Hindu-Arabic numerals reconsidered / Paul Kunitzsch -- The transmission of Arabic astronomy via Antioch and Pisa in the second quarter of the twelfth century / Charles Burnett -- The many aspects of "appearances": Arabic optics to 950 AD / Elaheh Kheirandish -- Ibn al-Haytham's revolutionary project in optics: the achievement and the obstacle / A.I. Sabra -- Mathematics and philosophy in medieval Islam / Gerhard Endress -- Tenth-century mathematics through the eyes of Abū Sahl al-Kūhī / J. Lennart Berggren -- Quadratus mirabilis / Jacques Sesiano -- Calculating surgace areas and volumes in Islamic architecture / Yvonne Dold-Samplonius -- The Sarvasiddhāntarāja of Nityānanda / David Pingree -- On the lunar tables in Sanjaq Dār's Zīj al-Sharīf / Julio Samsó -- A panorama of research on the history of mathematics in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the ninth and sixteenth centuries / Ahmed Djebbar -- Another Andalusian revolt? Ibn Rushd's Critique of al-Kindī's Pharmacological Computus / Y. Tzvi Langermann. |
| Series Title: | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra. |
Abstract:
Research has profoundly changed our understanding of the Islamic scientific tradition. This text offers an overview of this energized field of historical investigation. The areas discussed include cross-cultural transmission; transformations of Greek optics; numbers, geometry, and architecture.
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