by Juan Vernet · Acantilado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493065720
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In this fundamental book, Juan Vernet presents a profound analysis of the influence of Islam in Europe, especially through the Toledo School of Translators. Vernet guides us through the oriental scientific legacy and the classical antiquity that was transmitted to Europe thanks to Spain. The author explores the impact on philosophy, occult sciences, mathematics, technology, astronomy, astrology, physics, alchemy, geology, botany, zoology, and medicine, offering a complete vision of the European debt to the Islamic world in Spain.
Juan Vernet Ginés or Joan Vernet i Ginés was a Spanish science historian, Arabist and professor at the University of Barcelona for over thirty years. He was the pupil and intellectual heir of orientalist Maria Millàs Vallicrosa. The rigor and scope of his scholarly work give him international authority in the field of the history of science and cultural transfers between East and West. Author of the book "What culture owes to the Arabs of Spain", he also translated the quran and One Thousand and One Nights into Castilian Spanish.
