| Aristotle's Meteorology and Its Reception in the Arab World: With an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwār's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena Contributor(s): Lettinck, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004109331 ISBN-13: 9789004109339 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $316.35 Product Type: Hardcover Language: Arabic Published: May 1999 Annotation: An account of what Arabic scholars have written, either as commentators or as more independent authors, on the subjects treated in Aristotle's "Meteorology, this work investigates how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. For each subject a survey is given of the content of the Greek commentaries (by Alexander, Philoponus and Olympiodorus) as well as of a later treatise, ascribed to Olympiodorus and extant only in Arabic. Then, the Arabic version of Ibn al-Bitr?q is investigated; it was one of the sources used by the Arabic writers which are discussed after that: al-Kind?, Ibn S?n? and later scholars who were inspired by him, Ibn B?jja and Ibn Rud. Two Arabic treatises on subjects from the "Meteorology are edited and translated. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
| Dewey: 551.5 |
| LCCN: 99024294 |
| Series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (2.24 lbs) 516 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An account of what Arabic scholars have written, either as commentators or as more independent authors, on the subjects treated in Aristotle's Meteorology, this work investigates how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. For each subject a survey is given of the content of the Greek commentaries (by Alexander, Philoponus and Olympiodorus) as well as of a later treatise, ascribed to Olympiodorus and extant only in Arabic. Then, the Arabic version of Ibn al-Bitrīq is investigated; it was one of the sources used by the Arabic writers which are discussed after that: al-Kindī, Ibn Sīnā and later scholars who were inspired by him, Ibn Bājja and Ibn Rusd. Two Arabic treatises on subjects from the Meteorology are edited and translated. |