Islamic Science And The Making Of The European Renaissance by George Saliba
Argues that the medieval Islamic scientific tradition was a vibrant, innovative enterprise whose mathematical and astronomical advances—developed within concrete social and institutional settings—were transmitted to Europe and helped catalyze the Renaissance. By tracing technical continuities from scholars and observatories in places like Maragha and Damascus, including models such as the Tusi couple and Ibn al-Shatir’s planetary schemes, it challenges the narrative of an Islamic decline and a self-contained European breakthrough, emphasizing cross-cultural exchange and transformation.
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- 2007
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