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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Transmission and Reception

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Transmission and Reception: Islam and the West

The Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown
Call Number: BX1158 .B76 2010
The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England by Charles Burnett
Greek Thought, Arab Culture: the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early ʻAbbāsid society by Dimitri Gutas
Call Number: DS36.82.G7 G88 1998
Science in Medieval Islam by Howard R. Turner
Call Number: Q127.I742 T78 1997
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba
Call Number: Q127.I742 S35 2007
La Science Medicale Occidentale Entre Deux Renaissances by Danielle Jacquart
Call Number: R141 .J328 1997
La médecine arabe et l'Occident médiéval by Danielle Jacquart et Françoise Micheau
Call Number: R143 .J32 1996
The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe:the Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus by Menso Folkerts
Call Number: QA23 .F66 2006
Studies on the Transmission of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy by Raymond Mercier
Call Number: QB23 .M525 2004
Occident et Proche-Orient : contacts scientifiques au temps des Croisades : actes du colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve, 24 et 25 mars 1997 by Isabelle Draelants, Anne Tihon, Baudouin van den Abeele (Editors)
Call Number: Q124.97 .O33 2000
Avicenna by Jon McGinnis
Call Number: B751.Z7 M4 2010
The Rise of Early Modern Science by Toby E. Huff
Call Number: Q127.A5 H84 1993
The Enterprise of Science in Islam by Jan P. Hogendijk (Editor); Abdelhamid Sabra (Editor)
Call Number: Q124.97 .E57 2003
Islamic Science: an illustrated study by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Call Number: Q127.N15 N37
Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Medieval Science by Shlomo Pines
Call Number: B744.3 .P56 1986
Science in Translation by Scott L. Montgomery
Call Number: Q124 .M66 2000
Islamic Astronomy and Geography by David A. King
ISBN: 9781409442011
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge by Roxanne L. Euben
ISBN: 9780691138404

Transmission and Reception: Far East

Athanasius Kircher, China Monumentis (1667)

Euclid in China by Peter M. Engelfriet
Call Number: QA31 .E8753 1998
the genesis of the first Chinese translation of Euclid's Elements, books I-VI (Jihe yuanben, Beijing, 1607) and its reception up to 1723
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence
Call Number: BV3427.R46 S66 1984
French Jesuits and the mission to China : science, religion, history by Florence C. Hsia
Call Number: BX3746.C5 H85 1999
Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China by Florence C. Hsia
Call Number: BX3746.C5 H852 2009
On Their Own Terms: science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman
Call Number: Q127.C5 E48 2005
Encounters and dialogues : changing perspectives on Chinese-Western exchanges from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries by Xiaoxin Wu (Editor)
Call Number: BX3746.C5 E53 2005
Publication Date: http://libcat.slu.edu/record=b2066007~S5
Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 15-17, 2001 in Beijing and sponsored by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western History at the University of San Francisco and the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.