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Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world
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Title
Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely.
ISBN
9780307265340
030726534X
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
Samarkind to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science
Science lost and found
Harran : the road to Baghdad.
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