The house of wisdom : how Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance / Jim Al-Khalili
By: Al-Khalili, Jim.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2012Description: xxix, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143120568.Other title: How Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance.Subject(s): Science -- Arab countries -- History | Science -- Philosophy -- History | Science, Medieval | Science -- Methodology -- History | Science, Renaissance | Arab countries -- Intellectual lifeGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | Q127.A5 A4 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005932 |
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"First published in Great Britain as Pathfinders: the golden age of Arabic science by Allen Lane ... 2010"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
A dream of Aristotle -- The rise of Islam -- Translation -- The lonely alchemist -- The house of wisdom -- Big science -- Numbers -- Algebra -- The philosopher -- The medic -- The physicist -- The prince and the pauper -- Andalusia -- The Marāgha Revolution -- Decline and Renaissance -- Science and Islam today -- Timeline : the Islamic world from antiquity to the beginning of the modern period