Adelard of Bath
Author: Louise Cochrane
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 152
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Author: Louise Cochrane
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adelard (of Bath)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-12-10
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521394710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdelard of Bath was one of the most colourful personalities of the Middle Ages. He travelled to the Crusader kingdoms, to Sicily and south Italy, and translated texts on astronomy, astrology and magic from Arabic into Latin. He acquired a lasting reputation as a pioneering mathematician, and he was a gifted teacher. He addressed one of these works, on cosmology and the astrolabe, to the future King Henry II, and it is in the context of the education of the nobility that the three works edited in this book are to be viewed. Adelard meant them to be both entertaining and instructive. They deal with all kinds of topics, from the nature of the soul to the cause of earthquakes, from the effects of music to how to train a hawk. A preface provides the results of research on Adelard's life and work.
Author: Charles S. F. Burnett
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 224
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Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781999750923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Lyons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-02-05
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1608191907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. T here, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes, the House of Wisdom boasted as many as four hundred thousand. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, thirsty for knowledge, traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. I n this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much "Western" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.
Author: Bohak Gideon
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9788892900707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-01-29
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0521869315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Author: Ha-Nakdan Berechiam Ben Natronai
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keiji Yamamoto †
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 1435
ISBN-13: 9004381236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbū Ma’͑šar’s Great Introduction to Astrology (mid-ninth century) is the most comprehensive and influential text on astrology in the Middle Ages. In addition to presenting astrological doctrine, it provides a detailed justification for the validity of astrology and establishes its basis within the natural sciences of the philosophers. These two volumes provide a critical edition of the Arabic text; a facing English translation, which includes references to the divergences in the twelfth-century Latin translations of John of Seville and Hermann of Carinthia (Volume 1); and the large fragment of a Greek translation (edited by David Pingree). Comprehensive Arabic, English, Greek and Latin glossaries enable one to trace changes in vocabulary and terminology as the text passed from one culture to another. (Volume 2.)
Author: Steven P. Marrone
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1400856051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the seminal works of two early thirteenth-century philosophers, Steven P. Marrone shows how the idea of science" and the desire to be "scientific" first penetrated the scholarly discourse of the medieval West. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.