Book ID: CBB000070054

Arabic mathematical sciences: Instruments, texts, transmission (1995)

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Lorch, Richard P. (Author)


Variorum


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: xii + 354 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Facsimile reprints of previously published papers.


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Review Brentjes, S. (1998) Review of "Arabic mathematical sciences: Instruments, texts, transmission". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 185-88). unapi

Review Dallal, A. (2001) Review of "Arabic mathematical sciences: Instruments, texts, transmission". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 362). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lorch, Richard P.
King, David A.
Schöner, Christoph
Samsó, Julio
Sabra, A. I.
Rashed, Roshdi
Journals
Journal for the History of Arabic Science
Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historia Mathematica
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Variorum
Variorum Reprints
Ashgate, Variorum
Concepts
Astronomy
Spherical astronomy; astrometry
Measuring instruments
Optics
Transmission of ideas
Geometry
People
Jābir Ibn Aflah
Al-Khazini, Abū al-Fatḥ 'Abd al-Raḥman al-Manṣūr
Shujā' Ibn Aslam, Abū Kāmil
al-Majriti, Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad
Ptolemy
Plato of Tivoli
Institutions
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Schwaben
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