TY - BOOK AU - Freely,John TI - Aladdin's lamp: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world SN - 9780307265340 AV - Q127.G7 .F74 2009 U1 - 509 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Science KW - Greece KW - History KW - Islamic countries KW - Science, Ancient KW - Islam and science N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index; Ionia : the first physicists -- Classical Athens : the school of Hellas -- Hellenistic Alexandria : the museum and the library -- From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur -- Baghdad's house of wisdom : Greek into Arabic -- The Islamic Renaissance -- Cairo and Damascus -- Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain -- From Toledo to Palermo : Arabic into Latin -- Paris and Oxford I : reinterpreting Aristotle -- Paris and Oxford II : the emergence of European science -- From Byzantium to Italy : Greek into Latin -- The revolution of heavenly spheres -- The debate over the two world systems -- The scientific revolution -- Samarkand to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science -- Science lost and found -- Harran : the road to Baghdad UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008042743-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008042743-s.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008042743-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008042743-b.html ER -