Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam

Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51314-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes

This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe’s appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage.
Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lelli, Giovanna

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Giovanna Lelli

1 Science in Islam and Classical Modernity

Roshdi Rashed

2 Physics and Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: A Conceptual Survey

Hossein Masaoumi Hamedani

3 Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics

Roshdi Rashed

4 La musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes médiévaux

Anas Ghrab

5 Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ?Ali Mu?ammad I?fahani and the Logarithm of Numbers

Zeinab Karimian

6 Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra

Marouane ben Miled

7 Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth

Patricia Radelet-de Grave

8 The Pre-history of the Principle of Relativity

Patricia Radelet-de Grave

9 Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The Notion of mu?abaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun

Giovanna Lelli

10 Arabic Medicine in China: Content and Context

Paul D. Buell

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanna Lelli, PhD in Iranian Studies (I.U.O. Naples, 2000), is a researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Among her publications are Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam. An aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun (Routledge, 2021).