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Freely, John.
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Science -- Greece -- History.
Science -- Islamic countries -- History.
Science, Ancient.
Islam and science.
Greece -- History.
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Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely.
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Freely, John.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Subjects
Science -- Greece -- History.
Science -- Islamic countries -- History.
Science, Ancient.
Islam and science.
Greece -- History.
ISBN:
9780307265340
030726534X
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xi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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1st ed.
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.
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Q127.G7 .F74 2009
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