Editorial: Oxford University Press
Número de páginas: 240 págs. 17.0 x 25.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 15-01-2024
EAN: 9780190913243
ISBN: 978-0-19-091324-3
Precio (sin IVA): 78,90 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 82,06 €
'Abbas Ibn Firnas (d. 887), a celebrated early scientist, Córdoban courtier, and polymath. Ibn Firnas is best known today for conducting an early aeronautics experiment, which was commemorated by NASA. Glaire D. Anderson deftly weaves analyses of the Arabic texts alongside the striking contemporaneous visual evidence, including some of the earliest surviving Islamic scientific instruments and illustrated treatises that are, as argued here, also works of art. This book thus offers both an intellectual biography of the intriguing figure of Ibn Firnas alongside an exploration of the culture of scientific learning in Umayyad al-Andalus.