Greek Science Passed To The Arabs How

Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
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Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317847489

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How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs by Delacy O'Leary Pdf

First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Church history
ISBN : OCLC:957296630

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Greek Science Passed to the Arabs How by De Lacy O'Leary Pdf

Author : De Lacy O'Leary (Evans)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760392071

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How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs by De Lacy O'Leary (Evans) Pdf

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Church history
ISBN : OCLC:7839699

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How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs by De Lacy O'Leary Pdf

Author : De Lacy Evans O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:900853833

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Author : de Lacy B 1872 O'Leary
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014308240

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How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs by de Lacy B 1872 O'Leary Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : Ares Pub
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : 0890052824

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How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs by De Lacy O'Leary Pdf

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307271327

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Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely Pdf

Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, most notably Avicenna, Alhazen, and Averroës, adding their own interpretations to the philosophy and science they had inherited. Freely goes on to show how, beginning in the twelfth century, these texts by Islamic scholars were then translated from Arabic into Latin, sparking the emergence of modern science at the dawn of the Renaissance, which climaxed in the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

Author : De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Church history
ISBN : UOM:39015038843168

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How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs by De Lacy O'Leary Pdf

Author : Marshall Clagett
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258571

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Greek Science In Antiquity by Marshall Clagett Pdf

In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ignored this aspect of Greek science. The importance of the course of Greek science in late antiquity is evident, for it was during this period that much of the Greek scientific corpus was put into the form in which it passed to the medieval Latin West. We are justified, then, in considering this volume as an introduction to medieval and early modern science—that science being considered as a transformation of Greek science.

Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141965017

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Pathfinders by Jim Al-Khalili Pdf

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the 16th century, a 1,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun, created the greatest centre of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable, launching a golden age of Arabic science. Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the western world. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a polymath who outshines everyone in history except Leonardo da Vinci? The Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or the 13th-century Andalucian physician Ibn al-Nafees, who correctly described blood circulation 400 years before William Harvey? Iraqi Ibn al-Haytham who practised the modern scientific method 700 years before Bacon and Descartes, and founded the field of modern optics before Newton? Or even ninth-century zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin? The West needs to see the Islamic world through new eyes and the Islamic world, in turn, to take pride in its extraordinarily rich heritage. Anyone who reads this book will understand why.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415061326

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.

Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143120568

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The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili Pdf

A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1139461095

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A History of Natural Philosophy by Edward Grant Pdf

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally independently of natural philosophy. Although this began slowly to change in the late Middle Ages, a much more thoroughgoing union of natural philosophy and mathematics occurred in the seventeenth century and thereby made the Scientific Revolution possible. The title of Isaac Newton's great work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, perfectly reflects the new relationship. Natural philosophy became the 'Great Mother of the Sciences', which by the nineteenth century had nourished the manifold chemical, physical, and biological sciences to maturity, thus enabling them to leave the 'Great Mother' and emerge as the multiplicity of independent sciences we know today.

Author : G E R Lloyd
Publisher : Random House
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781448156719

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Early Greek Science by G E R Lloyd Pdf

In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between the state and the individual, the role of the intellectual. Most of the books in this series centre on the great focal periods, those of great literature and art: the world of Herodotus and the tragedians, Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Caesar, Virgil, Horace and Tacitus. This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of Greek science; he analyses the motives and incentives of the different groups of writers.