Aladdin's lamp
Subtitle: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world
By: by John Freely.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780307265340
Subjects: Science -- Greece -- History; Science -- Islamic countries -- History; Science, Ancient; Islam and science; Greece -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ionia; title: Classical Athens; title: Hellenistic Alexandria; title: From Athens to Rome, Constantinople and Jundishapur; title: Baghdad's house of wisdom; title: The Islamic Renaissance; title: Cairo and Damascus; title: Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain; title: From Toledo to Palermo; title: Paris and Oxford I; title: Paris and Oxford II; title: From Byzantium to Italy; title: The revolution of heavenly spheres; title: The debate over the two world systems; title: The scientific revolution; title: From Samarkind to Istanbul; title: Science lost and found; title: Harran.