The enterprise of science in Islam : new perspectives /

"Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most important centers for the study of what we now call "the exact sciences"--Including the mathematical sciences of arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry and their applications in such fields as astronomy, astrology, geography, cartography, and optic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hogendijk, J. P., Sabra, A. I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Colección:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
Temas:
Science, Medieval.
Science > Islamic countries > History.
Sciences > General.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Sciences médiévales.
Sciences > Pays musulmans > Histoire.
SCIENCE > History.
Science
Science, Medieval
Natuurwetenschappen.
Islam.
Sciences - General.
Islamic countries
Islamitische wereld.
History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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