Paul Lettinck

Aristotle's Meteorology and Its Reception in the Arab World

With an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwār's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bājja's Commentary on the Meteorology

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Produktbeschreibung

A survey of what Arabic scholars have written on the subjects treated in Aristotle's "Meteorology," It is investigated how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. Also, two Arabic treatises are edited and translated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill / Brill NV
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 1999
• Englisch, Arabisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1016g
• ISBN-13: 9789004109339
• ISBN-10: 9004109331
• Artikelnr.: 21810301

Autorenporträt

Paul Lettinck, Ph.D. (1973) in physics and (1991) in Semitic languages, Free University, Amsterdam. He teaches History of Islamic Science at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur. He has published a study on the reception of Aristotle's Physics in the Arabic world. (Brill, 1994).