The genius of their age Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the lost enlightenment
This is a book about two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance: Ibn Sina and Biruni. Both are known to specialists who have explored and analyzed their writings (what remains of them) for 150 years. But the general public has yet to discov...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
[2023]
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991011603908008016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Together and apart
- Privileged prodigies
- Promise and disruption
- Caught in the whirlwind
- Arguing Aristotle
- Inventing a world history
- From peace to chaos
- Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni
- Ibn Sina, encyclopedist
- Expanding the known world
- Ibn Sina's adventures
- Biruni's masterpiece
- The canon of medicine
- Biruni's canon for Masud
- The cure
- Biruni's encore
- Ibn Sina's encore
- Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages
- Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.
