TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations and Transcription of Foreign Languages xvii Chapter One
Introduction 1 Chapter Two
The Recursive Argument Method of Medieval Science 11 Chapter Three
From College and Universitas to University 37 Chapter Four
Buddhist Central Asian Invention of the Method 50 Chapter Five
Islamization in Classical Arabic Central Asia 76 Chapter Six
Transmission to Medieval Western Europe 100 Chapter Seven
India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and Other Control Cases 121 Chapter Eight
Conclusion 147 Appendix A: On the Latin Translations of Avicenna's Works 167
Appendix B: On Peter of Poitiers 171
Appendix C: The Charter of the Collège des Dix-huit 186
References 187
Index 199 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 | 
