Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam: Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science: 5 (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes, 5) - Hardcover

Book 3 of 10: Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes

Giovanna Lelli

 
9789004513143: Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam: Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science: 5 (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes, 5)

Synopsis

This volume highlights the scientific advances and ruptures of classical Islam with respect to Hellenism, and the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and a new relationship between mathematics and physics, from a comparative synchronic and diachronic perspective.

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About the Author

Giovanna Lelli, PhD in Iranian Studies (I.U.O. Naples, 2001), 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 Khaldūn (Routledge, 2021).

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