Arabic-Islamic Science and the making of the Renaissance
By George Saliba
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at Columbia University
Venue 1:
Saturday 26 May, 3.30pm
Thinktank Theatre, Thinktank,
Millenium Point, Birmingham
(http://www.thinktank.ac)
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Venue 2:
Tuesday May 29th 2007 at 6.30 pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOASUniversity of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell SquareLondon, WC1H OXG
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Topics
- How did scientific ideas pass from the Islamic world to the European Renaissance during the 15th and 16th centuries?
- What is the connection between mathematical innovations produced in the Islamic world and mathematical astronomy during the Renaissance?
- Did Copernicus make use of the achievements of Arabic/Islamic scholars? And did his 16th century counterparts do the same?