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Recent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.
Enterprise of Science in Islam
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410 pages
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8 April 2003
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Summary
Recent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition. 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 un…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262519168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026251916X |
| Author: | Jan P. Hogendijk |
| Publisher: | Mit Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 410 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2003 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Techn |
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Jan P. Hogendijk
Jan P. Hogendijk is Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utrecht.
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