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The enterprise of science in Islam : new perspectives
- Title
- The enterprise of science in Islam : new perspectives / edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxi, 386 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology
- Uniform Title
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *OG 03-5870
- ISBN
- 0262194821 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002029522
- OCLC
- 50252039
- Title
- The enterprise of science in Islam : new perspectives / edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.
- Series
- Dibner Institute for the history of science and technologyDibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hogendijk, J. P.Sabra, A. I.
- Research Call Number
- *OG 03-5870