Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam: Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science

By Edited by Giovanna Lelli

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004513140
• ISBN13: 9789004513143
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"