Mathematics and physics in classical Islam : comparative perspectives in the history and the philosophy of science : [Symposium, Ghent University

This volume highlights the scientific advances and ruptures of classical Islam with respect to Hellenism, and the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and a new relationship between mathematics and physics, from a comparative synchronic and diachronic perspective. ‎Contents 6 ‎Illustrations 9 ‎Notes on Contributors 12 ‎Introduction (Lelli) 15 ‎Chapter 1. Science in Islam and Classical Modernity (Rashed) 22 ‎Chapter 2. Physics and the Mathematical Sciences in the Islamic Period: a Conceptual and Historical Survey (Hamedani) 36 ‎Chapter 3. Ibn al-Haytham: between Mathematics and Physics (Rashed) 55 ‎Chapter 4. La Musique parmi les sciences dans les textes arabes médiévaux (Ghrab) 66 ‎Chapter 5. Traditional and Modern Science in an Age of Transition: ʿAlī Muḥammad Iṣfahānī and the Logarithm of Numbers (Karimian) 81 ‎Chapter 6. Formalism and Language in the Beginnings of Arabic Algebra (ben Miled) 100 ‎Chapter 7. Art and Mathematics, Two Different Paths to the Same Truth (Radelet-de Grave) 112 ‎Chapter 8. The Prehistory of the Principle of Relativity (Radelet-de Grave) 134 ‎Chapter 9. Intersections between Social and Scientific Thought: The notion of muṭābaqa in the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldūn (Lelli) 160 ‎Chapter 10. Arabic Medicine in China: Context and Content (Buell) 204 ‎Index 231 "This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe's appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contributors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed"-- Provided by publisher This book highlights the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and the beginning of the mathematisation of physics in Classical Islam. Exchanges between mathematics, physics, linguistics, arts and music were a factor of creativity and progress in the mathematical, the physical and the social sciences. Goods and ideas travelled on a world-scale, mainly through the trade routes connecting East and Southern Asia with the Near East, allowing the transmission of Greek-Arabic medicine to Yuan Muslim China. The development of science, first centred in the Near East, would gradually move to the Western side of the Mediterranean, as a result of Europe's appropriation of the Arab and Hellenistic heritage. Contirbutors are Paul Buell, Anas Ghrab, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Zeinab Karimian, Giovanna Lelli, Marouane ben Miled, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, and Roshdi Rashed