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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 10 Copyright Page 11 Table of Contents 12 Foreword 16 Translator’s Note 17 Preface 18 Introduction: Problems of Method 20 1. The history of science: between epistemology and history 22 2. The transmission of Greek heritage into Arabic 38 1. Transmission and translation: setting up the problem 39 1. Towards a new approach 39 2. Cultural transmission, scientific transmission 41 3. Scholarly transmission: one myth and several truths 43 3.1. The rebirth of research 44 3.2. Institution and profession: the age of the Academies 48 3.3. An ideal type of translator: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s journey 52 3.4. Third phase: from translator-scientist to scientist-translator 54 2. Translation and research: a dialectic with many forms 55 1. Coexisting and overtaking: optics and catoptrics 55 2. Translation and recursive reading: the case of Diophantus 64 3. Translation as a vehicle of research: the Apollonius project 69 4. Ancient evidence of the translation-research dialectic: the case of the Almagest 72 3. Prospective conclusion 74 3. Reading ancient mathematical texts: the fifth book of Apollonius’s Conics 76 4. The founding acts and main contours of Arabic mathematics

Author

Roshdi Rashed

Published

2019

Language

EN