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Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Q127.G7 F74 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freely, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Greece--History.
- Science.
- Greece.
- History.
- Science--Islamic countries--History.
- Islamic countries.
- Science, Ancient.
- Islam and science.
- Greece--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction 3
- 1 Ionia: The First Physicists 5
- 2 Classical Athens: The School of Hellas 23
- 3 Hellenistic Alexandria: The Museum and the Library 38
- 4 From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur 61
- 5 Baghdad's House of Wisdom: Greek into Arabic 72
- 6 The Islamic Renaissance 83
- 7 Cairo and Damascus 95
- 8 Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain 106
- 9 From Toledo to Palermo: Arabic into Latin 120
- 10 Paris and Oxford I: Reinterpreting Aristotle 137
- 11 Paris and Oxford II: The Emergence of European Science 149
- 12 From Byzantium to Italy: Greek into Latin 164
- 13 The Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres 178
- 14 The Debate over the Two World Systems 191
- 15 The Scientific Revolution 211
- 16 Samarkand to Istanbul: The Long Twilight of Islamic Science 226
- 17 Science Lost and Found 237
- 18 Harran: The Road to Baghdad 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-288) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780307265340
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