Author: Louise CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Adelard of Bath
Author: Louise CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Adelard of Bath, Conversations with His Nephew
Author: Adelard (of Bath)Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521394710
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : la
Pages : 348
Book Description
Adelard 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.
Adelard of Bath
Author: Charles S. F. BurnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabists
Languages : ar
Pages : 224
Book Description
LIFE AND TIMES OF ADELARD OF BATH
Author: SIMON. WEBBPublisher:
ISBN: 9781999750923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The House of Wisdom
Author: Jonathan LyonsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608191907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
For 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.
Thabit Ibn Qurra «On Talismans» and Ps.-Ptolemy «On Images 1-9». Together with the «Liber Prestigiorum Thebidis» of Adelard of Bath
Author: Bohak GideonPublisher:
ISBN: 9788892900707
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A History of Natural Philosophy
Author: Edward GrantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521869315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Dodi Ve-nechdi
Author: Ha-Nakdan Berechiam Ben NatronaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"First the Bow is Bent in Study-- "
Author: Marian Michèle MulchaheyPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar (2 vols.)
Author: Keiji Yamamoto †Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004381236
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1435
Book Description
Abū 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.)