Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
European Science Notes
Author: European Science Notes
Author: European Scientific Notes
Author: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
Author: George SalibaPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026226112X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.
European Scientific Notes
Author: Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Pirotechnia
Author: Vannoccio BiringuccioPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262520176
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Originally printed in 1540, this classic work on the field of metallurgy marked the beginning of a true technological literature. Biringuccio's Pirotechnia is the earliest printed work to cover the whole field of metallurgy. Originally printed in Venice in 1540, this was the first book to deal with the applied metal arts and processes of ore reduction and to describe the techniques which had been in development since the bronze age. Written by a master craftsman in a time when knowledge was kept alive by the spoken rather than the written word, this classic marked the beginning of a true technological literature, with both craftsmanship and science united by a writer's pen to form a record of an important facet of man's achievement as a stimulus to further advance. After the publication of the Pirotechnia, many followed Biringuccio's example, and as a result of this growing literature of technological practice and experimental fact, science eventually became the concern of the educated man.
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Science and Power
Author: B. LottiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Recoge: 1.From patronage to the management of science -- 2.Cognitive and political organisation of science -- 3.The development of national S&T policies -- 4.Notes on a new epistemology -- 5.Euroscientia conferences -- Information note.