Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely

Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely

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 Averro s, 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.

In 1960, John Freely moved to Istanbul to teach physics at Robert College, which is now the University of the Bosphorus, and he returned in 1993. STROLLING THROUGH ISTANBUL was his first travel book, and he has since authored more than twenty more, including CLASSICAL TURKEY, STROLLING THROUGH ATHENS, and STROLLING THROUGH VENICE.

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ISBN 13	9780307277831
ISBN 10	0307277836
Title	Aladdin's Lamp
Author	John Freely
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-03-09
Number of pages	320
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