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  1. Configuring the universe: Aporetic, problem solving, and kinematic modeling as themes of Arabic astronomy.Abdelhamid I. Sabra - 1998 - Perspectives on Science 6 (3):288-330.
    The undoubted truth is that there exist for the planetary motions true and constant configurations from which no impossibilities or contradictions follow; they are not the same as the configurations asserted by Ptolemy; and Ptolemy neither grasped them nor did his understanding get to imagine what they truly are.
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  • The Establishment of the Mathematical Bookshelf of the Medieval Hebrew Scholar: Translations and Translators.Tony LÉvy - 1997 - Science in Context 10 (3):431-451.
    The ArgumentThe major part of the mathematical “classics” in Hebrew were translated from Arabic between the second third of the thirteenth century and the first third of the fourteenth century, within the northern littoral of the western Mediterranean. This movement occurred after the original works by Abraham bar Hiyya and Abraham ibn Ezra became available to a wide readership. The translations were intended for a restricted audience — the scholarly readership involved in and dealing with the theoretical sciences. In some (...)
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  • Ibn Bājja on Medicine and Medical Experience.Miquel Forcada - 2011 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 21 (1):111-148.
    RésuméLe présent article propose la liste des œuvres médicales composées par Ibn Bājja, donne une présentation synthétique de celles qui nous ont été transmises et étudie le métacommentaire au commentaire de Galien sur lesAphorismesd'Hippocrate (Sharḥ fī al-Fuṣūl). Ce texte montre une influence profonde d'al- Fārābī, en particulier dans sa conception de l'expérience médicale, qui remonte à la façon dont ce dernier construit l'expérience (tajriba) comme le procédé inductif, décrit par Aristote dans lesSeconds Analytiques, produisant les prémisses de la démonstration. Sur (...)
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