Freely, John <br/><br/>
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 ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307265340  RM111.61 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008-042743 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--History--Greece<br/>Science--History--Islamic countries<br/>Science, Ancient<br/>Islam and science
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Greece--History