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Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freely, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Greece--History.
- Science.
- Greece.
- History.
- Science--Islamic countries--History.
- Islamic countries.
- Science, Ancient.
- Greece--History.
- Islam and science.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307265340
- 030726534X
- OCLC:
- 232980727
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