Science and medicine in Islam
Subtitle: a collection of essays
By: Franz Rosenthal.
Series: Collected studies ;; CS330
Publisher: Variorum; Gower Pub. Co.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Subjects: Science -- History -- Islamic Empire; Medicine, Arab
Description: The achievements of medieval Muslim scholars in the fields of philosophy, science and medicine are now well recognized, and Franz Rosenthal's work has been instrumental in helping us to understand these. In this third collection of his articles, he demonstrates the information to be gained from tracing the Greek roots of the science and medicine of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages. Of particular concern here are the Hellenistic or late Hellenistic authors such as Galen, Hippocrates or Ptolemy. These articles show how Muslim writers have preserved much that has been lost in the Greek and played a vital part in ensuring the continuity of the classical tradition, and examine some of the specific ways in which they reacted to and developed it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.