Islamic reception of Greek astronomy

2009/01/01 by George Saliba · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Islam #Mythology #The Renaissance #Excellence #Civilization #Phenomenon #Classics #History #Political science #Sociology #Epistemology #Philosophy #Law #Art history #Archaeology

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Abstract

Abstract Research in Islamic science over the last half century or so has clearly established that such old myths as Islamic science being a preservation of Greek science, or that science was always in conflict with religion in Islamic civilization as it was in Europe, or that the European scientific Renaissance was independent of outside influences –a European phenomenon par excellence– are now all subjects of great dispute if not altogether dead. In what follows I will illustrate the evidence that has put such myths into question with only few examples, since time and space do not allow me to elaborate more.

Citations

• Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
• Early Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic Cosmology: A Ninth-Century Text on the Motion of the Celestial Spheres

Cited by

• Nicolaus Copernicus [wikipedia]

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