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Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science: Asronomy-Theoretical and applied, v.2 Mathematics and the physical sciences; v.3 Technology, alchemy and life sciences

Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

The Arabic contribution is fundamental to the history of science, mathematics and technology, but until now no single publication has offered an up-to-date synthesis of knowledge in this area. In three fully-illustrated volumes the Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science documents the history and philosophy of Arabic science from the earliest times to the present day. The set as a whole covers seven centuries. Thirty chapters, written by an international team of specialists from Europe, America, the Middle East and Russia cover such areas as astronomy, mathematics, music, engineering, nautical science and scientific institutions.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS The present book is devoted to the history of Arabic
science. Today, one normally understands science to be modern science,
principally 'hard' or 'exact' science and technology, something the Western world
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Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

The study of asymptotic behaviour and of infinitesimal objects represents a
substantial part of Arab mathematical research. Activated by new disciplines,
whose development was itself dependent on that of algebra, and particularly of
numerical ...