TitleThe enterprise of science in Islam [electronic resource] : new perspectives / edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003
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Descript xxi, 386 p. : ill

CONTENT

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 Abๅu Sahl al-Kๅuhๅi / J. Lennart Berggren -- Quadratus mirabilis / Jacques Sesiano -- Calculating surgace areas and volumes in Islamic architecture / Yvonne Dold-Samplonius -- The Sarvasiddhๅantarๅaja of Nityๅananda / David Pingree -- On the lunar tables in Sanjaq Dๅar's Zๅij al-Sharๅif / Julio Samsโo -- 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-Kindๅi's Pharmacological Computus / Y. Tzvi Langermann


SUBJECT

  1. Science
  2. Medieval
  3. Science -- Islamic countries -- History
  4. Electronic books.