Freely, John.

Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. - xi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.

Ionia : the first physicists -- Classical Athens : the school of Hellas -- Hellenistic Alexandria : the museum and the library -- From Athens to Rome, Constantinople, and Jundishapur -- Baghdad's house of wisdom : Greek into Arabic -- The Islamic Renaissance -- Cairo and Damascus -- Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain -- From Toledo to Palermo : Arabic into Latin -- Paris and Oxford I : reinterpreting Aristotle -- Paris and Oxford II : the emergence of European science -- From Byzantium to Italy : Greek into Latin -- The revolution of heavenly spheres -- The debate over the two world systems -- The scientific revolution -- Samarkand to Istanbul : the long twilight of Islamic science -- Science lost and found -- Harran : the road to Baghdad.

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SCIENCE--History.--Greece
SCIENCE--History.--Islamic countries
Science, Ancient.
Islam and science.


Greece--History.

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