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Video Stream of George Saliba’s Lecture

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, SOAS
University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London, 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?

by: FSTC Limited, Fri 11 May, 2007

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