9780262194822 - The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (7 risultati)

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Assez bon. Jaquette. ISLAM I.) eds.].The Enterprise of Science in Islam. New Perspectives.Cambridge, 2003, in-8°, cart. pl. toile édit. ss. jaq. lég. défr. 800 gr.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Book has very mild sun fading to top edge of cover and spine and very mild rubbing to bottom corners of spine.otherwise book is in excellent condition with a prstine dust jacket, bright pages, a solid binding, and mylar laminated.

Oktav. Org.-Ganzleinen mit Org.-SU. xxii, 386 S., sehr wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. 1001 g.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. PRISTINE CONDITION: A 'Like New' copy of 'The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)'. No highlighting, markings, or spine creases. Ideal for students, researchers, and professional libraries. Used - like new. Ships from the USA. Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most important centers for the study of what we now call "the exact sciences"-including the mathematical sciences of arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry and their applications in such fields as astronomy, astrology, geography, cartography, and optics-were not in Europe but in the vast, multinational Islamic world. Research from the last few decades has profoundly changed our understanding of the Islamic scientific tradition. We now know that it was richer and more profound and had more complex relations to other cultures than wehad previously thought. This book offers an overview of this newly energized field of historical investigation. The areas discussed include cross-cultural transmission; transformations of Greek optics; the philosophy and practice of mathematics; numbers, geometry, and architecture; the transmission of astronomy; and science and medicine in the Maghrib. The emphasis throughout the book is on the transmission of scientific knowledge, either from one culture to another or within the medieval Islamic world. The book also presents many unsolved historical problems, such as the question of when and where the Hindu-Arabic number symbols evolved from the Eastern Islamic forms to the Western Islamic forms, which are virtually identical to the modern forms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.

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Series: Dibner Institute in the History of Science. 8vo. xxii, 386 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 9780262194822 [BH].