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Aladdin's lamp, how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world, John Freely

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Aladdin's lamp, how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world, John Freely

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Aladdin's lamp

Nature of contents

bibliography

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232980727

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John Freely

Sub title

how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world

Table Of Contents

Ionia : the first physicists -- Classical Athens : the school of Hellas -- Hellenistic Alexandria : the museum and the library -- From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur -- Baghdad's house of wisdom : Greek into Arabic -- The Islamic Renaissance -- Cairo and Damascus -- Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain -- From Toledo to Palermo : Arabic into Latin -- Paris and Oxford I : reinterpreting Aristotle -- Paris and Oxford II : the emergence of European science -- From Byzantium to Italy : Greek into Latin -- The revolution of heavenly spheres -- The debate over the two world systems -- The scientific revolution -- Samarkand to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science -- Science lost and found -- Harran : the road to Baghdad

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