Main entry:

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, author.

Title & Author:

Islamic science : an illustrated study / Seyyed Hossein Nasr ; photographs by Roland Michaud.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : World of Islam Festival Publishing Company, 1976.

Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Series:

World of Islam Festival illustrated series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-252) and index.
I: The general background -- 1. Islam and the rise of the Islamic sciences -- 2. The Islamic educational system -- II: The Islamic sciences: the qualitative study of the universe -- 3. Cosmology, cosmography and geography -- 4. Natural history: geology -- mineralogy -- botany -- zoology -- III: The cosmos and its mathematical study -- 5. Mathematics -- 6. Astronomy and astrology -- 7. Physics -- IV: The applied sciences -- 8. Medicine and pharmacology -- 9. Alchemy and other occult sciences -- 10. Agriculture and irrigation -- V: Man in the universe -- 11. Man and the natural environment -- 12. Man in the cosmic order.

Summary:

Includes chapter on medicine, occult science and agriculture.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

090503502X
9780905035024

Subject:

Science Middle East History.
Science, Medieval.
Islam and science.
Science history
Sciences Moyen-Orient Histoire.
Sciences médiévales.
Islam et sciences.
Science.
Middle East.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Michaud, Roland, photographer.
World of Islam Festival illustrated series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15589
Call No.: ID:87-B15836
Status: Available