Light from the east : how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the western world / John Freely.
Pubblicazione:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 238 p., [8] p. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates. Prologue: The scriptorium at the Süleymaniye. 1. Science before science: Mesopotamia and Egypt 2. The land of the Greeks 3. The roads to Baghdad 4. Abbasid Baghdad: the house of wisdom 5. Spiritual physick 6. From Baghdad to central Asia 7. The cure of ignorance 8. Fatimid Cairo: the science of light 9. Ayyubid and Mamluk Cairo: healing body and soul 10. Ingegnious mechanical devices 11. Islamic Technology 12. Al-Andalus 13. From the Maghrib to the Two Sicilies: Arabic into Latin 14. Incoherent philosophers 15. Maragha and Samarkand: spheres within spheres 16. Arabic science and the European Renaissance 17. Copernicus and his Arabic predecessors 18. The scientific revolution 19. The heritage of Islamic science. Notes. Bibliography. Index
