Revealed Sciences
Autor Justin K. Stearnsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781107638709
ISBN-10: 1107638704
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1107638704
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Preface: paths not taken; Introduction: Narratives of science, old and new; 1. A landscape of learning in the far west; Excursus: the poverty of intellectual history as a series of great men; 2. Constructing science in Morocco between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; Excursus: the horizons of causality: how to think about causes, nature, and ghosts of scientific methods; 3. Legalizing science: the authority of the natural sciences in Islamic law; Excursus: Kuhn and the history of science in Islamicate societies; 4. Writing the mathematical and natural sciences; Excursus: Sufism and the spiritual life: balancing the exoteric and esoteric sciences; Conclusion.
Recenzii
'Stearns exhibits a scholarly mastery over the subject of natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco with each section illuminating a dark spot in the history of science.' Usman Butt, The New Arab
'This work represents a great advance in historical as well as sociological and anthropological approaches of natural sciences in Islamicate societies and opens up large perspectives for work by historians, naturalists and philologists.' Meyssa Ben Saad, Metascience
'This work represents a great advance in historical as well as sociological and anthropological approaches of natural sciences in Islamicate societies and opens up large perspectives for work by historians, naturalists and philologists.' Meyssa Ben Saad, Metascience
Descriere
Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.