| Description |
xiv, 273 pages : illustrations(chiefly color), facsimiles(some color), color map(on lining paper) ; 30cm |
| Contents |
I: The general background -- 1. Islam and the rise of the Islamic sciences -- 2. The Islamic educational system -- II: The Islamic sciences: the qualitative study of the universe -- 3. Cosmology, cosmography and geography -- 4. Natural history: geology - mineralogy - botany - zoology -- III: The cosmos and its mathematical study -- 5. Mathematics -- 6. Astronomy and astrology -- 7. Physics -- IV: The applied sciences -- 8. Medicine and pharmacology -- 9. Alchemy and other occult sciences --10. Agriculture and irrigation -- V: Man in the universe -- 11. Man and the natural environment -- 12. Man in the cosmic order |
| Summary |
Includes chapter on medicine, occult science and agriculture |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibl.: pages 250-252 |
| Subject |
Islam and science -- History.
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Islam and science.
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Science -- Middle East -- History.
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Science, Medieval.
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| Author |
Michaud, Roland.
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| LC no. |
76364270 |
| ISBN |
090503502X |
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