Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam : Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science

Giovanna Lelli

ISBN 10: 9004513140 / ISBN 13: 9789004513143

Published by Brill Mai 2022, 2022

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Neuware - This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe's appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam : Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science
• Publisher: Brill Mai 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004513140
• ISBN 13: 9789004513143
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 14D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 513 grams

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Synopsis

This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe’s appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.

About the Author

Giovanna Lelli, PhD in Iranian Studies (I.U.O. Naples, 2000), is a researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Among her publications are Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam. An aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn (Routledge, 2021).