Arabic in the Sciences
The Enumeration of the Sciences
إحصاء العلوم
In the Enumeration of the Sciences al-Farabi set all the sciences in one scheme, from the science of language to political science. It was translated into Latin twice at Toledo in the twelfth century, by Gerard of Cremona and Dominicus Gundissalinus, and Gundissalinus built his Division of Philosophy on it – the road by which Europe's schools learned how the sciences are ordered.
- Author
- al-Farabi (Alpharabius) (d. 950)
- Field
- Philosophy
- Arabic title
- إحصاء العلوم
- Latin title
- De scientiis (Gerard of Cremona; Dominicus Gundissalinus)
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Sources
- Dag Nikolaus Hasse, «Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West», Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- عثمان أمين (تحقيق)، الفارابيّ: إحصاء العلوم، المقدّمة: «أثر إحصاء العلوم في العالم الغربيّ»
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