Aladdin's Lamp\Platon in Bagdad, englische Ausgabe
"Aladdin's Lamp" is the fascinating story of how
ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century
B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman
world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales,
Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes,
Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the
Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated
the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their
ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with
many Muslim scientists, most notably Avicenna, Alhazen, and
Averroes, adding their own interpretations to the philosophy and
science they had inherited. Freely goes on to show how, beginning
in the twelfth century, these texts by Islamic scholars were then
translated from Arabic into Latin, sparking the emergence of modern
science at the dawn of the Renaissance, which climaxed in the
Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Here is early
science in all its glory, from Pythagorean "celestial
harmony" to the sun-centered planetary theory of Copernicus,
who, in 1543, aided by the mathematical methods of medieval Arabic
astronomers, revived a concept proposed by the Greek astronomer
Aristarchus some eighteen centuries before. When Newton laid the
foundations of modern science, building on the work of Copernicus,
Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and others, he said that he was
"standing on the sholders ["sic"] of Giants,"
referring to his predecessors in ancient Greece and in the Arabic
and Latin worlds from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.
Caliph Harun al-Rashid was one of the Muslim rulers who first
promoted translating Greek texts into Arabic. His Baghdad is the
setting for "The" "Thousand and One"
"Nights, " in which Scheherazades's "Tale of
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp" reflects the marvels of the new
science and the amazing inventions it was said to produce. John
Freely's "Aladdin's Lamp" returns us to that time
and brings to light an essential and long-overlooked chapter in the
history of science. "From the Hardcover edition."
Ausstattung/Bilder: Repr. 2010. 303 p. w. ill. and maps.
Seitenzahl: 320
Englisch
Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 24mm
Gewicht: 294g
ISBN-13: 9780307277831
ISBN-10: 0307277836
Best.Nr.: 27984519
John Freely, geboren 1926 in Brooklyn, lebt in Istanbul, wo er an der Bosphorus University Physik und Wissenschaftsgeschichte unterrichtet hat. Er hat zahlreiche Reisebücher und historische Sachbücher über Venedig, Athen, Griechenland, die Türkei und das Osmanische Reich veröffentlicht.
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