Format:
1 online resource (876 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781351692694
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Late Antiquity, translating and the formation of the sciences in Islamicate polities (1st bh-7th/5th-13th centuries) -- I.1 Translation as an enduring and widespread cultural practice -- I.2 Multiple translation activities -- I.3 Translations in the mathematical sciences -- I.4 Translations of medical and occult texts into Arabic and Syriac and their contexts after 80/700 -- I.5 Geometry and its branches -- I.6 The astral sciences through the 7th/13th century: Attitudes, experts and practices -- I.7 Algebra and arithmetic -- I.8 Optics: experiments and applications -- I.9 Automata and balances -- I.10 Medicine -- I.11 Natural philosophy -- I.12 Alchemy and the chemical crafts -- I.13 Geography and mapmaking -- I.14 Physiognomy: science of intuition -- I.15 The Hieroglyphic script deciphered? An Arabic treatise on ancient and occult alphabets -- I.16 Practices of Zoroastrian scholars before and after the advent of Islam -- I.17 Evaluating the past: scholarly views of ancient societies and their sciences -- Part II Scientific practices at courts, observatories and hospitals (2nd-13th/8th-19th centuries) -- II.1 The emergence of Persian as a language of science -- II.2 The emergence of a new scholarly language: the case of Ottoman Turkish -- II.3 Imperial demand and support -- II.4 The practice of pharmacy in later medieval Egypt -- II.5 Ottoman and Safavid health practices and institutions -- II.6 Planetary theory -- II.7 Practices of celestial observation in the Islamicate world -- II.8 The practical aspects of Ottoman maps -- II.9 Another scientific revolution: the occult sciences in theory and experimentalist practice.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138047594
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138047594
Language:
English
Author information:
Brentjes, Sonja 1951-
