NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Chinese Philosophy, Averroes, Natural Philosophy
3 Jun 2013
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1760 lecture 3a chinese and islamic science and technology. Part 1: islamic science and technology: studying the development of scientific thought in non-european cultures. Medieval islamic world considered by many to be heir to greek science leaders in most. Today we will examine relationship between science and islam (religion) scientific fields from 800-1300 ad. Early rulers in islamic world were open to knowledge from foreign cultures and this included. Islamic scholars were mere translators, imitators of greeks who are given credit only for translating works into arabic. In fact, historians like alnoor dhanani argue that islamic scholars not only translated but expanded on work; were more critical of content science. Also argues that different groups who followed islam had different attitudes towards. Role of koran and science; historical cultural bias against non-western peoples. People were studying natural philosophy in the islamic world through religion. Unique civilization: language, politics, religious institutions, trade, aesthetic ideas, islamic.
