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Title Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely
Author Freely, John
Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Naturvetenskap och matematik  509 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition 1. ed.
Descript xi, 303 s. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Content Innehåll: 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
Subject Vetenskapshistoria -- Grekland -- antiken
Vetenskapshistoria -- Islamiska länder
Grekland -- historia
Islam och vetenskap
Classmark 509
Be
U:k
Cmdd
K.24
ISBN/ISSN 9780307265340
030726534X
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