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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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The Complete Art of Medicine
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas)
The Healing: On Minerals
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Ten Treatises on the Eye
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius)
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")