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
Seubert, Philippe
Lockard, Joe
Goffman, Laura F.
Gökçe Günel
Ben-Bassat, Yuval
Tucker, Judith E.
Concepts
Scientific expeditions
Cartography
Botany
Roman Empire
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Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
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Ancient
18th century
19th century
Medieval
Bronze age
20th century, early
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Arabian peninsula
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean region
China
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Persia (Iran)
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Gulf Cooperation Council
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
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