Encyclopedia_of_the_History_of_Arabic_Science

<i>Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science</i>

Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

1996 book by Roshdi Rashed

The Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science is a three-volume encyclopedia covering the history of Arabic contributions to science, mathematics and technology which had a marked influence on the Middle Ages in Europe. It is written by internationally recognized experts in the field and edited by Roshdi Rashed in collaboration with Régis Morelon.[1]

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Volume one covers "Astronomy—Theoretical and applied". Volume two covers "Mathematics and the Physical Sciences". Volume three covers "Technology, Alchemy, and the Life Sciences".

Editions

Contributors

A partial list of contributors include:

Volume 1
Volume 2
  • A. S. Saidan (numeration and arithmetic)
  • Boris A. Rosenfeld and A. P. Yushkevich (geometry)
  • J.-C. Chabrier and M. Rozhanskaya (music and statics)
  • M.-Th. Debarnot (trigonometry, algebra)
  • Roshdi Rashed (geometrical optics)
  • G. Russell (physiological optics)
Volume 3
  • Donald Routledge Hill (engineering)
  • A. Miquel (geography)
  • Toufic Fahd (botany and agriculture)
  • G. Anawati (Arabic alchemy)
  • E. Savage-Smith (medicine)
  • F. Micheau (scientific institutions in the medieval Near East)
  • J. Jolivet (classifications of the sciences)
  • M. Mahdi (historiography)
  • B. Goldstein (heritage of Arabic science in Hebrew)
  • H. Hugonnard-Roche, A. Allard, D. Lindberg, R. Halleux, and D. Jacquart (Western reception of various Arabic sciences)

Notes

  1. [1]
    Berggren
  2. [2]
    "Traduction Encyclopédie: Histoire des Sciences Arabes t.1, Société Libanaise Histoire des Sciences, History of Science, تاريخ العلوم العربية, UNIVERSITE LIBANAISE, CNRS-L, Lebanese University, NCSR-L".

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