Routledge handbook on the sciences in Islamicate societies : practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries
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...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Taylor & Francis,
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schlagworte: | Science Science-Islamic countries-History Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (876 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (876 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781351692694 1351692690 9781138047594 1138047597 |