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Product Description: This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences in the mediaeval Arab world. The second of five comprehensive volumes, this book offers a detailed exploration of Arabic mathematics in the eleventh century as embodied in the legacy of the celebrated polymath al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham...read more
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9780415582186 | Routledge, September 4, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences in the mediaeval Arab world.
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9780143120568 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 27, 2012), cover price $18.00
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9780754629160 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 15, 2012, cover price $350.00
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9780415582179 | Routledge, November 15, 2011, cover price $155.00
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9781592700806 | Enchanted Lion Books, October 14, 2008, cover price $19.95
This is a study of the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam or China, despite the fact that, by the Middle Ages, Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To find an explanation the author examines the differences in religious, philosophical, and legal institutions of the three civilizations, focusing on the legal concept of 'corporation', which is unique to the West and gave rise to neutral space and free inquiry, concepts integral to modern science. (view table of contents)
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9780521823029 | 2 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 18, 2003), cover price $125.00
9780521434966 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: This is a study of the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam or China, despite the fact that, by the Middle Ages, Islam and China were more scientifically advanced.
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9780521529945 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $44.99
9780521498333 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $23.99
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9780860784357 | Variorum, April 1, 1994, cover price $170.00
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9789004099609 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: Presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's "Physics," have contributed to philosophy and science in the Middle Ages.
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