Sonja Brentjes, "Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies "
English | ISBN: 103244505X | 2023 | 244 pages | EPUB | 829 KB
English | ISBN: 103244505X | 2023 | 244 pages | EPUB | 829 KB
This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context and decline. Two other papers discuss the historiographical practices of historians of mathematics and other disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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