Variantology 4: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies In the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond - Couverture souple

Alertz, Ulrich; Batsry, Irit; Belting, Hans

 
9783865607324: Variantology 4: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies In the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3865607322 ISBN 13 : 9783865607324
Editeur : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2010

Synopsis

Variantology 4: 4 "Variantology 4" revisits the early western encounter with the technological marvels of early Arabic culture. It presents scholarship on a range of subjects relating to the overlap between the arts and the sciences, from musical automata to theories of music and dance. Along the way, an impressive roster of historians of the arts and the sciences transport us to such phenomena as the ninth-century House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where programmed music automata were conceived and built; to a darkened chamber in Cairo, where in the early eleventh century the laws of seeing and visual perception were rewritten; to the Al-Jazira region between the two rivers Euphrat...

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Éditeur
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3865607322
ISBN 13 
9783865607324
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
518
Éditeur
Zielinski Siegfried
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