| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The enterprise of science in Islam/ edited by Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra. |
| Reminder of title: |
new perspectives / |
| other author: |
Hogendijk, J. P. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xxi, 386 p. :ill. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
The transmission of Hindu-Arabic numerals reconsidered / Paul Kunitzsch -- The transmission of Arabic astronomy via Antioch and Pisa in the second quarter of the twelfth century/ Charles Burnett -- The many aspects of "appearances": Arabic optics to 950 AD / Elaheh Kheirandish -- Ibn al-Haytham's revolutionary project in optics: the achievement and the obstacle / A.I. Sabra -- Mathematics and philosophy in medieval Islam/ Gerhard Endress -- Tenth-century mathematics through the eyes of Ab廡 Sahl al-K廡h嶠 / J. Lennart Berggren -- Quadratus mirabilis / Jacques Sesiano -- Calculating surgace areas and volumes in Islamic architecture/ Yvonne Dold-Samplonius -- The Sarvasiddh屧ntar屧ja of Nity屧nanda / David Pingree -- On the lunar tables in Sanjaq D屧r's Z嶠j al-Shar嶠f/ Julio Sams漃 -- A panorama of research on the history of mathematics in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the ninth and sixteenth centuries / Ahmed Djebbar -- Another Andalusian revolt? Ibn Rushd's Critique of al-Kind嶠's Pharmacological Computus/ Y. Tzvi Langermann. |
| Subject: |
Science - History. - Islamic countries - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=100068An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585480192 (electronic bk.) |