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Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely. by Freely, John. Alfred A. Knopf, c2009. Call #: 509 F854a Subjects Science -- Greece -- History.   Science -- Islamic countries -- History.   Science, Ancient.   Islam and science.   Greece -- History. URL856 Publisher description ISBN:  9780307277831(pbk.) 9780307265340 030726534X Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 509 F854a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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