Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

Author	(eds.) Roshdi Rashed with Régis Morelon
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	May 1996
ISBN	0-415-02063-8
OCLC	185762373
Dewey Decimal	509/.17/4927 21
LC Class	Q127.A5 E53 2000

The Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science is a three-volume encyclopedia covering the history of Arabic contributions to science, mathematics and technology which had a marked influence on the Middle Ages in Europe. It is written by internationally recognized experts in the field and edited by Roshdi Rashed in collaboration with .^[1]

Volume one covers "Astronomy--Theoretical and applied". Volume two covers "Mathematics and the Physical Sciences". Volume three covers "Technology, Alchemy, and the Life Sciences".

Editions[]

• French edition: "fr:Histoire des sciences arabes", 3 vol., Le Seuil, Paris, 1997, (ISBN 2-02-030355-8).
• Arabic edition: "Mawsu‘a Tarikh al-‘ulum al-‘arabiyya", 3 vol., Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-‘arabiyya, Beirut, 1997, (ISBN 9953-450-73-0, 978-9953-450-73-5).^[2]

Contributors[]

A partial list of contributors include:

Volume 1

• and George Saliba (Arabic astronomy)
• David A. King ()
• Edward Stewart Kennedy (mathematical geography)
• and (Arabic science in Andalusia)
• ()

Volume 2

• (numeration and arithmetic)
• and A. P. Yushkevich (geometry)
• and (music and statics)
• (trigonometry, algebra)
• Roshdi Rashed (geometrical optics)
• (physiological optics)

Volume 3

• Donald Routledge Hill (engineering)
• (geography)
• (botany and agriculture)
• (Arabic alchemy)
• (medicine)
• (scientific institutions in the medieval Near East)
• (classifications of the sciences)
• (historiography)
• B. Goldstein (heritage of Arabic science in Hebrew)
• , , , , and (Western reception of various Arabic sciences)

Notes[]

References[]

• . "Reviewed work(s): Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science by Roshdi Rashed". Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 120, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 2000), pp. 282-283.
• Sonja Brentjes. "Reviewed work(s): Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science by Roshdi Rashed". Technology and Culture. Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 399-401.
• Charles Burnett. "Reviewed work(s): Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science by Roshdi Rashed; Régis Morelon". The British Journal for the History of Science. Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 72–73.

External links[]

• Volume 1^{[dead link]}
• Volume 2^{[dead link]}
• Rashed, Roshdi; Morelon, Régis (1996). Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science: Astronomy-Theoretical and applied, v.2 Mathematics and the physical sciences; v.3 Technology, alchemy and life sciences. Routledge. ISBN 9780415020633.