05 October 2009

Letter from Lhasa, number 142. (Freely 2009): Aladdin’s Lamp

Letter from Lhasa, number 142. (Freely 2009): Aladdin’s Lamp

by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Freely, J., Aladdin’s Lamp, How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, USA, 2009.

(Freely 2009).

John Freely

Civilisations are always intertwined. Knowledge has no real monopolies.

Greek science came and re-came to Europe, plunged into the dark ages, through the Islamic world. This book tells how.

It is a long journey around the ex-Roman Empire and further.

Freely, J., Aladdin’s Lamp, How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, USA, 2009.