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Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics

Barker, Andrew
Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics
The science called 'harmonics' was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy's treatise seeks to invest it with new scientific rigour, its consistently sophisticated procedural self-awareness marks it as a key text in the history of science. This book is a sustained methodological exploration of Ptolemy's project. After an analysis of his explicit pronouncements on the science's aims and the methods appropriate to i...

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Berlioz Studies

Bloom, Peter
Berlioz Studies
This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician's life and work.

CHF 106.00

The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam

Hawting, Gerald Richard / Hawting, G. R. / Morgan, David
The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam
Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship maintains that Islam developed in opposition to the idolatrous and polytheistic religion of the Arabs of Mecca and the surrounding regions. In this study of pre-Islamic Arabian religion, G. R. Hawting adopts a comparative religious perspective to suggest an alternative view. By examining ...

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European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State

Fleet, Kate
European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State
International trade was of great importance for the Ottomans in the construction of their empire. Kate Fleet's book examines the trade links which existed between European merchants and their Muslim counterparts from the beginnings of the Ottoman empire in 1300 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. By using previously unexploited Latin and Turkish sources, and by focusing on the trading partnership between the Genoese and the Turks, she demon...

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