Article ID: CBB835547999

Understanding Texts with the Help of Experimentation: The Example of Cupellation in Arabic Scientific Literature (2016)

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The article aims to show how experimentation can help us understand historical texts, by focusing on the specific case of cupellation in Arabic scientific literature. It also provides new information about cupellation in the Arab-Muslim Middle Ages. The article consists of translations of three of the most detailed accounts of cupellation: Hamdānī’s Kitāb al-jawharatayn al-‘atīqatayn (first half of the fourth/tenth century), Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, Rutbat al-ḥakīm (339–342/950–953), and Manṣūr b. Ba‘ra, Kitāb kashf al-asrār al-‘ilmiyya bi-dār al-ḍarb al-miṣriyya (615–635/1218–1238). These are accompanied by commentaries based on a series of experiments carried out in the course of archaeological research on cupellation, which are here used to shed new light on the medieval texts and resolve several problems in interpreting them.

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Authors & Contributors
Baack, L. J.
Barbara, Sébastien
Belmonte, Juan Antonio
Bennett, Natasha
Brentjes, Sonja
Delmas, Catherine
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Anthropozoologica
Arms and Armour Society Journal
Engineering Studies
Geographia antiqua
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Publishers
Ohio University Press
Routledge
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Scientific expeditions
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Cartography
Technology
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
People
Forsskål, Peter
Doughty, Charles
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Niebuhr, Carsten
Oswald, John
Ptolemy, Claudius
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Ancient
Medieval
20th century
17th century
Places
Arabian peninsula
India
Asia
China
Mediterranean region
Middle and Near East
Institutions
Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Gulf Cooperation Council
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