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31Between doubts and certainties: on the place of history of science in Islamic societies within the field of history of scienceNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 11 (2): 65-79. 2003.I discuss my long-term observation that history of science in Islamic societies is marginalized within the general history of science community as well as in the academic world of Islamic studies, Near Eastern language and civilization programs, Middle Eastern history, or the investigation of the modern Muslim world. I ask what the possible causes for this situation are and what can be done to change the bleak situation.
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30On Arithmetic and Geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 1 and 2 (review)Isis 105 (1): 211-212. 2014.
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25Courtly patronage of the ancient sciences in post-classical Islamic societiesAl-Qantara 29 (2): 403-436. 2008.
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22Die Schrift des Ibrāhīm b. Sinān b. Tābit über die Schatteninstrumente. Translated and annotated by Paul Luckey. Edited by, Jan P. Hogendijk. xvi + 283 pp., illus., bibl.Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic‐Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1999 (review)Isis 93 (1): 84-85. 2002.
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20Observations on Hermann of Carinthia's Version of the Elements and its Relation to the Arabic TransmissionScience in Context 14 (1-2): 39-84. 2001.This paper investigates the affiliation of Book I of the Latin translation of Euclid's Elements attributed to Hermann of Carinthia with the Arabic transmission of the Greek mathematical work. It argues that it is a translation of a text of the Arabic secondary transmission, that is, of an Arabic edition mixed with comments. Two methodological claims are made in the paper. The first insists that the determination of a text whose transmission was as multifaceted and complex as the Euclidean Elemen…Read more
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15Studies in al-Kimya′: Critical Issues in Latin and Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry - Ahmad Y. al-HassanCentaurus 53 (1): 67-67. 2011.
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12Probleme der Historiographie der Wissenschaften in islamischen Gesellschaften vor 1700NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (2): 191-200. 2011.
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11Sanctioning KnowledgeAl-Qantara 35 (1): 277-309. 2014.En este artículo se estudian historias sobre gobernantes y príncipes de tres dinastías - ‛abbāsí, normanda y timurí – y su representación narrativa como conocedores de las ciencias matemáticas, la geografía y la historia. Se argumenta que constituyen un conjunto de formas positivas de aprobar o impugnar el conocimiento en esas sociedades, prescribiendo jerarquías de formas de conocimiento y jerarquías de gentes e instituciones que deciden acerca de la veracidad del conocimiento. Se sugiere que e…Read more
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9Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and TechnologyVisualisierungen der Himmel vor 1700 als Anliegen der Wissenschafts‑, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (3): 295-304. 2020.
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7Crossing Boundaries: New Approaches to the History of “Pre-Modern“ Science and TechnologyScience in Context 12 (3): 381-384. 1999.
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7The Interests of the Republic of Letters in the Middle East, 1550–1700Science in Context 12 (3): 435-468. 1999.The ArgumentThe “raison d'être” of this paper is my dissatisfaction with current portrayals of the place and the fate of the so-called rational sciences in Muslim societies. I approach this issue from the perspectives of West European visitors to the Ottoman and Safavid Empires during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I show that these travelers encountered educated people capable of understanding and answering their visitors' scholarly questions in non-trivial ways. The travels and the e…Read more
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6During the last two decades, it has become fashionable not merely to write about issues concerning the exchange of knowledge between Jesuits and China or the acquisition of goods and knowledge in the Iberian colonial empires, as was previously the case. Historians of science now direct their attention also to other areas of the globe, where such processes took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Depending on their specific expertise, they focus on Dutch trade in what is called …Read more
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5Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and TechnologyNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (3): 295-304. 2020.
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5Reviews (review)NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 2 (1): 255-270. 1994.
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3Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (review)Isis 103 179-180. 2012.
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1RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 3 (1): 122-128. 1995.