256 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later... Read more
Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Hellenism in Asia; Chapter III The Legacy of Greece; Chapter IV Christianity as a Hellenizing Force; Chapter V The Nestorians; Chapter VI The Monophysites; Chapter VII Indian Influence—The Sea Route; Chapter VIII Indian Influence II—The Land Route; Chapter IX Buddhism as a Possible Medium; Chapter X The Khalifate of Damascus; Chapter XI The Khalifate of Baghdad; Chapter XII Translation into Arabic; Chapter XIII The Arab Philosophers;
Biography
De Lacy O’Leary
