Optics, Astronomy and Logic : Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy
by
A.I. Sabra
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
0860784355
ISBN-13
9780860784357
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 14th, 1994
Print length
337 Pages
Weight
592 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.10 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Oriental & Indian philosophyHistory of science
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Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam.
Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. The opening paper presents the historiography of this process, and the focus is then placed on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most original and influential figures of the 11th century, and in particular in his contribution to the science of optics, both mathematical and experimental, and the psychology of vision. Professor Sabra then continues the analysis of how Greek thought was developed in the Islamic world with two studies of work based on Euclid’s geometry and two on critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy. The final articles turn specifically to questions in the history of logic - Aristotelian syllogism, and Avicenna’s views on the subject - matter of logic.
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