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Mathematics and physics in classical Islam : comparative perspectives in the history and the philosophy of science / edited by Giovanna Lelli. - 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). - Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; volume 5 . - Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; v. 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe's appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed"--

ISBN: 900451340X 9789004513402

LCCN: 2022001520

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science--Philosophy--History.--Islam
Islam and science--History.
Islam et sciences--Histoire.
Islam and science.
Science--Philosophy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Malta.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: Q174.8 / .M375 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 509/.02