Mathematics and physics in classical Islam : comparative perspectives in the history and the philosophy of science / edited by Giovanna Lelli.
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TextSeries: Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; v. 5.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 900451340X
- 9789004513402
- 509/.02 23/eng20220419
- Q174.8 .M375 2022
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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