TY  - GEN
N2  - "The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadim that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance."--Jacket.
AB  - "The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadim that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance."--Jacket.
T1  - Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance /
DA  - ©2007.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Saliba, George,
CN  - Q127.I742
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - ©2007.
ID  - 1385539
KW  - Science
KW  - Islam and science.
KW  - Science, Medieval.
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
KW  - HUMANITIES/History
KW  - PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
SN  - 9780262282888
SN  - 0262282887
TI  - Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance /
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