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1 online resource (xxi, 386 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Abū Sahl al-Kūhī / J. Lennart Berggren -- Quadratus mirabilis / Jacques Sesiano -- Calculating surgace areas and volumes in Islamic architecture / Yvonne Dold-Samplonius -- The Sarvasiddhāntarāja of Nityānanda / David Pingree -- On the lunar tables in Sanjaq Dār's Zīj al-Sharīf / Julio Samsó -- 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-Kindī's Pharmacological Computus / Y. Tzvi Langermann. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science, Medieval.
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Science, Medieval. |
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Science -- Islamic countries -- History.
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Science. |
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Islamic countries. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Hogendijk, J. P.
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Sabra, A. I.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Enterprise of science in Islam. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003 0262194821 (DLC) 2002029522 (OCoLC)50252039 |
| ISBN |
9780262275545 (electronic book) |
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0262275546 (electronic book) |
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0585480192 (electronic book) |
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9780585480190 (electronic book) |
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