Name: What Did Galileo Know of Arabic/Islamic Science and How did He Know it?
Date & Time: Saturday, October 29 – 8:15PM
Location: Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, UBC Point Grey Campus
Description: Professor Saliba is a historian of Arabic and Islamic Science. He studies the development of scientific ideas from late antiquity to early modern times, with a special focus on the transmission of astronomical and mathematical ideas from the Islamic world to Renaissance Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He received the History of Astronomy Prize from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science in 1996, and the History of Science Prize given by the Third World Academy of Science in 1993. He has also been selected as Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress (2005-6), and at the Carnegie Scholars Program (2009-10).
Ticketing Information: This is a FREE event – all are welcome, open to the public. For more information please visit http://vanist.ca