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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe’s appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Giovanna Lelli 1 Science in Islam and Classical Modernity Roshdi Rashed 2 Physics and Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: A Conceptual Survey Hossein Masaoumi Hamedani 3 Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics Roshdi Rashed 4 La musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes médiévaux Anas Ghrab 5 Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ʿAlī Muḥammad Iṣfahānī and the Logarithm of Numbers Zeinab Karimian 6 Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra Marouane ben Miled 7 Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth Patricia Radelet-de Grave 8 The Pre-history of the Principle of Relativity Patricia Radelet-de Grave 9 Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The Notion of muṭābaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldūn Giovanna Lelli 10 Arabic Medicine in China: Content and Context Paul D. Buell Index
