IBN Al-Haytham, New Spherical Geometry and Astronomy: A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics (4) - Couverture rigide

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Rashed, Roshdi

 
9780415582162: IBN Al-Haytham, New Spherical Geometry and Astronomy: A history of Arabic sciences and mathematics (4)

Synopsis

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world's foremost authorities on the subject.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the former Director of the Centre for History of Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.

J. V. Field is a historian of science, and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

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9780815348825: Ibn al-Haytham, New Astronomy and Spherical Geometry

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0815348827 ISBN 13 :  9780815348825
Editeur : Routledge, 2018
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