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Arabic in the Sciences

Scientific books in Arabic, and what they did to Europe's sciences and universities.

45 cards
al-Jabr wa-l-Muqābala (Algebra) On Indian Reckoning Elements of Astronomy

Why these cards?

A selection, not a full list, of what Europe took from Arabic: books whose translation and influence historians of science document – each card says what the book did once translated.

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al-Jabr wa-l-Muqābala (Algebra)
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
On Indian Reckoning
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Elements of Astronomy
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani (Alfraganus)
The Sabian Tables
Muhammad ibn Jabir al-Battani (Albategnius)
Correction of the Almagest
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber)
On Astronomy
Nur al-Din al-Bitruji (Alpetragius)
Book of Optics
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, Alhacen)
al-Ḥāwī, the Continens
al-Razi (Rhazes); compiled posthumously from his notes
The Canon of Medicine
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Commentaries on Aristotle
Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 'the Commentator'
Book of Algebra
Abu Kamil Shuja' ibn Aslam
On Measuring Plane and Spherical Figures
The Banu Musa (Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir)
The Toledan Tables
The Toledo astronomers under Sa'id al-Andalusi, with al-Zarqali (Azarquiel) prominent among them
On the Causes of Differences in Vision
Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (Alkindus)
Questions on Medicine
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)
al-Manṣūrī, for al-Manṣūr
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes)
On Smallpox and Measles
al-Razi (Rhazes)
The Complete Art of Medicine
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas)
al-Taṣrīf: On Surgery
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis)
Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa, the Tables of Health
Ibn Butlan
al-Kulliyyāt, the Colliget
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
The Book of Secrets
al-Razi (Rhazes)
The Healing: On Minerals
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages
al-Kindi
The Book of Agriculture
Ibn al-'Awwam
The Final Quest
Ibn al-Shatir
Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon
Ibn al-Nafis
The Book of Seventy
Attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (the Jabirian corpus)
Nuzhat al-Mushtāq, the Book of Roger
Muhammad al-Idrisi
The Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari
Ten Treatises on the Eye
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)
Book of the Fixed Stars
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi)
The Sindhind Zij
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Euclid's Elements in Arabic
al-Hajjaj ibn Matar and Ishaq ibn Hunayn
The Book of Causes
An unknown Arab philosopher of al-Kindi's circle, Baghdad
The Theology of Aristotle
Ibn Na'ima al-Himsi, corrected by al-Kindi
Provisions for the Traveller
Ibn al-Jazzar of Kairouan
The Secret of Secrets
An anonymous Arabic author
On Dawn and Twilight
Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani
The Latin Books of "Mesue"
An unknown European author ("Pseudo-Mesue")
Al-Murshid (The Guide)
Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
The Enumeration of the Sciences
al-Farabi (Alpharabius)
From shay to cosa
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
The Canon in Arabic Type, Rome 1593
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
The Rainbow from the Book of Optics
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)