Light from the east : how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the western world / John Freely.

Author: Freely, John.

Imprint:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Descriptionxii, 238 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Note:Science before science : Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The land of the Greeks -- The roads to Baghdad -- 'Abbasid Baghdad : the House of Wisdom -- "Spiritual physick" -- From Baghdad to Central Asia -- The cure of ignorance -- Fatimid Cairo : the science of light -- Ayyubid and Mamluk Cairo : healing body and soul -- Ingenious mechanical devices -- Islamic technology -- Al-Andalus -- From the Maghrib to the Two Sicilies : Arabic into Latin -- Incoherent philosophers -- Maragha and Samarkand : spheres within spheres -- Arabic science and the European Renaissance -- Copernicus and his Arabic predecessors -- The scientific revolution -- The heritage of Islamic science.

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