Arabic Mathematical Sciences (Record no. 8044)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 1040239420
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250328151419.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781040239421
Qualifying information EA
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 52.99
Form of issue BB
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency 01
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code PDX
Source thema
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Subject category code NHB
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code PDX
Source bic
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Subject category code HBG
Source bic
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Subject category code HIS000000
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code 510.9174927
Source bisac
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Richard Lorch
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Arabic Mathematical Sciences
Remainder of title Instruments, Texts and Transmission
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20241211
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 368 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic, then from Arabic into Latin), and close attention is paid to terminology and comparative vocabulary. The other themes are those of the technology of the sphere and of astronomical instruments, which are treated both from the mechanical and mathematical point of view. Several of the articles combine these themes, for instance the study of the self-rotating sphere of al-Khazini (12th century) or that on the transmission of spherical trigonometry to the West. Four articles also contain substantial texts, with translation and commentary.

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