Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam : Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science
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| Title: | Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam : Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Giovanna Lelli |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Science--Islam--Philosophy--History, Islam and science--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004513143 9789004513402 |
