Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
[book]
\ George Saliba
Cambridge, Mass.
: MIT Press
, 2007
xi, 315 p.
:ill.
Transformations
Bibliography
Index
The Islamic scientific tradition : question of beginnings I -- The Islamic scientific tradition : question of beginnings II -- Encounter with the Greek scientific tradition -- Islamic astronomy defines itself : the critical innovations -- Science between philosophy and religion : the case of astronomy -- Islamic science and Renaissance Europe : the Copernican connection -- Age of decline : the fecundity of astronomical thought.