Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
by Freely, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 030726534X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265340
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John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there and in Ireland before joining the U.S. Navy at seventeen for the last two years of World War II. Since 1960 he has taught physics and the history of science at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, with intervals in New York, Boston, London, Athens, and Venice. He is the author of more than forty books, including Istanbul: The Imperial City; The Western Shores of Turkey; Strolling Through Athens; The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi; and Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe.
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- Abacus Bookshop (US)
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- BOOKS074023I
- Title
- Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
- Author
- Freely, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 030726534X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265340
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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- Science & Engineering;
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