The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New PerspectivesBetween 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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Inhoudsopgave
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Mathematics and Philosophy in Medieval Islam | 121 |
TenthCentury Mathematics through the Eyes | 177 |
QUADRATUS MlRABILIS | 199 |
Calculating Surface Areas and Volumes in Islamic | 235 |
The Sarvasiddhantaraja of Nityananda | 269 |
On the Lunar Tables in Sanjaq Dars Zij alSharIf | 285 |
A Panorama of Research on the History | 309 |
Another Andalusian revolt? Ibn Rushds Critique | 351 |
Index | 373 |
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Pagina 238 - Reduction, confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic, such as men constantly require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, law-suits, and trade, and in all their dealings with one another, or where the measuring of lands, the digging of canals, geometrical computation, and other objects of various sorts and kinds are concerned...
Pagina 73 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line such that all the straight lines falling upon it from one point among those lying within the figure are equal to one another; 16 And the point is called the center of the circle.
Pagina 166 - God like some universal and exemplary plan, relying upon which as a design and archetypal example the creator of the universe sets in order his material creations and makes them attain to their proper ends, but also because it is naturally prior in birth, inasmuch as it abolishes other sciences with itself
Pagina 287 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Pagina 153 - Since circular motion is not the contrary of the reverse circular motion, we must consider why [5] there is more than one motion, though we have to pursue our inquiries at a distance — a distance created not so much by our spatial position as by the fact that our senses enable us to perceive very few of the attributes of the heavenly bodies.
Pagina 343 - M. Steinschneider, Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17.
Pagina 158 - For his purpose is not to tell us in which way the spheres truly are, but to posit an astronomical system in which it would be possible for the motions to be circular and uniform and to correspond to what is apprehended through sight, regardless of whether or not things are thus in fact.
Pagina 158 - Consider now how great these difficulties are. If what Aristotle has stated with regard to natural science is true, there are no epicycles or eccentric circles and everything revolves round the center of the earth. But in that case how can the various motions of the stars come about? Is it in any way possible that motion should be on the one hand circular, uniform, and perfect, and that on the other hand the things that are observable should be observed in consequence of it, unless this be accounted...
Pagina 174 - It falls to experience to provide the principles of any subject. In astronomy, for instance, it was astronomical experience that provided the...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Redacteurs | J. P. Hogendijk, A. I. Sabra, Abd al-Hamid Sabra |
| Bijdragers | Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Dibner Institute |
| Editie | geïllustreerd |
| Uitgever | MIT Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0262194821, 9780262194822 |
| Lengte | 386 pagina's |
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