ISBN:

• 9780307265340
• 030726534X

Description: xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographic references 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
• Samarkand to Istanbul: the long twilight of Islamic science
• Science lost and found
• Harran: the road to Baghdad.

LCCN: 2008042743

Control Number: 326062

Subjects:

• Greece -- History.
• Islam and science.
• Science -- Greece -- History.
• Science -- Islamic countries -- History.
• Science, Ancient.