2011, ISBN: 1594202796

[EAN: 9781594202797], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 32.25], [PU: New York : Penguin Press], Jacket, XXIX, 302 p., plates, map, ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time ed… More...

[EAN: 9781594202797], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 32.25], [PU: New York : Penguin Press], Jacket, XXIX, 302 p., plates, map, ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean condition. - The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab and Persian innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction to study closely all of God’s works, rulers of the Islamic empire funded armies of scholars who gathered Persian, Sanskrit and Greek texts in the capital, Baghdad, and translated them into Arabic, the language of the Koran. From the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, scholars throughout the empire then built upon those foundations a scientific revolution that gave Europe a similar revolution centuries later. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science were actually the result of the ingenuity of these medieval scholars of the East: Astronomers developed the mathematics used by Copernicus in his heliocentric model of the solar system; physicians accurately described blood circulation and the inner workings of the eye ages before Europeans solved those mysteries; physicists made discoveries that laid the foundation for Newton’s theories of optics and gravity. But the most significant legacy of Arabic science was its evidence-based approach— the lack of which kept Europeans in the dark throughout the Dark Ages. The father of this experimental approach to science—what we call the scientific method—was an Iraqi physicist who applied it centuries before Europeans first dabbled in it. Al-Khalili details not only how discover ies like these were made but also how they changed European minds, and how they were ultimately obscured by later Western versions of the same principles. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places the reader in the intellectual and cultural hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment: the "House of Wisdom" in Baghdad, the holy city of Isfahan, the melting pots of Damascus and Cairo and the embattled Islamic outposts of Spain. Al-Khalili tackles two tantalizing questions: Why did the Islamic world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling Enlightenment? How much did Arabic learning contribute to making the Western world as we know it? Given his singular combination of expertise in both the Western and Middle Eastern scientific traditions, al-Khalili is uniquely qualified to solve those riddles. - Professor Jim al-Khalili is an academic, an author and a broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist based at the University of Surrey in England, where he holds a personal chair in physics as well as a chair in the public engagement in science. He has written a number of popular science books, translated so far into thirteen languages, and presents regular programs on television and radio. He is an executive vice president and a trustee of the British Science Association, a senior advisory to the British Council on science and technology and a member of the Royal Society’s Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel. In 2008, he won the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday medal for science communication and was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Honors List. ISBN 9781594202797 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 608 Original hardcover with dust jacket., Books<

2011, ISBN: 9781594202797

XXIX, 302 p., plates, map, ill. Original hardcover with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Trad… More...

XXIX, 302 p., plates, map, ill. Original hardcover with dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean condition. - The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab and Persian innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction to study closely all of Gods works, rulers of the Islamic empire funded armies of scholars who gathered Persian, Sanskrit and Greek texts in the capital, Baghdad, and translated them into Arabic, the language of the Koran. From the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, scholars throughout the empire then built upon those foundations a scientific revolution that gave Europe a similar revolution centuries later. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science were actually the result of the ingenuity of these medieval scholars of the East: Astronomers developed the mathematics used by Copernicus in his heliocentric model of the solar system; physicians accurately described blood circulation and the inner workings of the eye ages before Europeans solved those mysteries; physicists made discoveries that laid the foundation for Newtons theories of optics and gravity. But the most significant legacy of Arabic science was its evidence-based approach the lack of which kept Europeans in the dark throughout the Dark Ages. The father of this experimental approach to sciencewhat we call the scientific methodwas an Iraqi physicist who applied it centuries before Europeans first dabbled in it. Al-Khalili details not only how discover ies like these were made but also how they changed European minds, and how they were ultimately obscured by later Western versions of the same principles. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places the reader in the intellectual and cultural hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment: the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the holy city of Isfahan, the melting pots of Damascus and Cairo and the embattled Islamic outposts of Spain. Al-Khalili tackles two tantalizing questions: Why did the Islamic world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling Enlightenment? How much did Arabic learning contribute to making the Western world as we know it? Given his singular combination of expertise in both the Western and Middle Eastern scientific traditions, al-Khalili is uniquely qualified to solve those riddles. - Professor Jim al-Khalili is an academic, an author and a broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist based at the University of Surrey in England, where he holds a personal chair in physics as well as a chair in the public engagement in science. He has written a number of popular science books, translated so far into thirteen languages, and presents regular programs on television and radio. He is an executive vice president and a trustee of the British Science Association, a senior advisory to the British Council on science and technology and a member of the Royal Societys Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel. In 2008, he won the Royal Societys Michael Faraday medal for science communication and was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queens Honors List. ISBN 9781594202797 Versand D: 4,50 EUR , [PU:New York : Penguin Press,]<

2010, ISBN: 9781594202797

New York, New York: The Penquin Press / The Penquin Group, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better., … More...

New York, New York: The Penquin Press / The Penquin Group, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better., The Penquin Press / The Penquin Group, 2010, 3<