Thābit ibn Qurra
science and philosophy in ninth-century Baghdad
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Word Count
197,250 words, Guess
Page Count
789 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25566878M
- ISBN-139783110220780
- ISBN-103110220784
- OCLC Control Number457130240
- OCLC Control Number502426720
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- Library of Congress Control Number2010471121
Classifications
- DDC180
- LCCQA27.A67 T43 2009
Description
"Thabit ibn Qurra (826–901) was one of history’s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics. Approximately a dozen of this shorter mathematical and philosophical writings are collected in this volume. Critically edited with accompanying commentary, these writings show how Thabit Ibn Qurra developed and reconceived the intellectual inheritance of ancient Greece in all areas of knowledge."-- "Thabit ibn Qurra est l'un des esprits les plus originaux de tous les temps. On lui doit le premier dépassement de Ptolémée en astronomie et la première critique radicale de l'ontologie aristotélicienne au nom de l'idéalisme mathématique. Au vu de son importance historique, il était urgent de publier ses œuvres encore inédites, ou non éditées de manière critique, et de les étudier de manière véritablement historique. On trouvera, dans cet ouvrage, l'édition, la traduction et le commentaire d'une douzaine de ses opuscules mathématiques et philosophiques, éclairant différentes facettes de son génie universel."--
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Series Statement
- Scientia Graeco-Arabica -- v. 4
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