The series Scientia Graeco-Arabicais devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs it provides access to the topics of inquiry in which ancient science presented itself and developed over time in a continuous tradition between Antiquity and the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.

Languages of publication are English, German, French and Italian.

Die arabischen Ubersetzungen antiker landwirtschaftlicher Werke sind bisher kaum untersucht worden. Die im vorliegenden Prolegomena-Band gebotene Rekonstruktion der arabischen Tradition zeigt die Bedeutung der Ubersetzungen fur die arabische landwirtschaftliche Literatur auf und ermoglicht es, die Frage der Genese der byzantinischen Geoponika zu erhellen. Diese Einfuhrung ist daher fur Altertumswissenschaftler und fur Orientalisten von Nutzen.

Die griechische Medizin und Naturwissenschaften der Antike haben einen starken und nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die mittelalterlichen arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften ausgeubt. Der vorliegende Band vereint eine Auswahl von Aufsatzen, die Manfred Ullmann, ein herausragender Kenner dieser groen interkulturellen Bewegung, neben seinen zahlreichen Monographien zu diesem Thema publiziert hat. Die Beitrage beleuchten unter anderem die arabische Rezeption wichtiger medizinischer Schriften von Hippokrates, Rufus von Ephesos oder Galen, arbeiten die griechische Tradition in genuin arabischen...

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of the angle from Euclid to classical Arabic mathematics. The volume presents critically edited texts, with translations and commentaries, of Greek and Arabic philosophers and mathematicians including Euclid, Simplicius, al-Nayrīzī, Avicenna, Ibn al-Haytham, al-Tūsī, al-Shīrāzī, and al-Fārisī.

This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna's method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of...

Despite its importance in the history of Ancient science, Menelaus' Spherics is still by and large unknown. This treatise, which lies at the foundation of spherical geometry, is lost in Greek but has been preserved in its Arabic versions. The reader will find here, for the first time edited and translated into English, the essentials of this tradition, namely: a fragment of an early Arabic translation and the first Arabic redaction of the Spherics composed by al-Māhānī /al-Harawī, together with a historical and mathematical study of Menelaus' treatise....