Sonja Brentjes
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German historian of mathematics and arabist
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Sonja Brentjes's Degrees
- PhD History of Mathematics Free University of Berlin
- Masters Arabic Studies Free University of Berlin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sonja Brentjes is a German historian of science, historian of mathematics, and historian of cartography known for her work on mapmapking and mathematics in medieval Islam. Education and career Brentjes is the daughter of archaeologists, orientalists, and Islamists and Helga Wilke Brentjes.
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Published Works
- Euclid's Elements, Courtly Patronage and Princely Education (2008) (20)
- Observations on Hermann of Carinthia's Version of the Elements and its Relation to the Arabic Transmission (2001) (18)
- 1001 Inventions : the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization (2015) (15)
- The relevance of non-primary sources for the recovery of the primary transmission of Euclid's Elements into Arabic (1996) (15)
- Two comments on Euclid's Elements? On the relation between the Arabic text attributed to al‐Nayrızı and the Latin text ascribed to Anaritius (2001) (13)
- Additions to book I in the Arabic traditions of Euclid's elements (1998) (12)
- The location of the Ancient or ‚rational’ sciences in Muslim educational landscapes (AH 500-1100) (2002) (12)
- The sciences in Islamic societies (750–1800) (2013) (10)
- Courtly Patronage of the Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic Societies (2008) (9)
- AN EXCITING NEW ARABIC VERSION OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS: MS MUMBAI, MULLA FIRUZ R.I.6 (2006) (8)
- Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries (2010) (8)
- The Prison of Categories—‘Decline’ and Its Company (2012) (8)
- Towards A New Approach To Medieval Cross- Cultural Exchanges (2014) (7)
- Review of: Al-Hassani, Salim T. S. (Ed.): 1001 Inventions : the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic 2012 (2013) (6)
- Mapmaking in Ottoman Istanbul between 1650 and 1750: a domain of painters, calligraphers, or cartographers? (2005) (6)
- Notes on Thabit ibn Qurra and his rule for amicable numbers (1989) (6)
- The Interests of the Republic of Letters in the Middle East, 1550–1700 (1999) (5)
- Narratives of knowledge in Islamic societies: What do they tell us about scholars and their contexts? (2013) (4)
- :Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation (2003) (4)
- Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science (1999) (4)
- Theodosius, Sphaerica : Arabic and Medieval Latin Translations (2015) (4)
- Issues of best historiographical practice : Garcia da Orta’s Colóquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India (Goa, 1563) and their conflicting interpretation (2016) (4)
- Remarks about the proof sketches in Euclid's Elements, Book I as transmitted by Ms Paris, B.N., Fonds Latin 10257 (1996) (4)
- Between doubts and certainties: on the place of history of science in Islamic societies within the field of history of science (2003) (4)
- From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700) The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550–1700) (2008) (4)
- Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700) (2018) (3)
- Patchwork – The Norm of Mapmaking Practices for Western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe As Well As in Istanbul Between 1550 and 1750? (2011) (3)
- 1001 distortions : how (not) to narrate history of science, medicine, and technology in non-western cultures (2016) (3)
- Giacomo Gastaldi’s maps of Anatolia : the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space? (2013) (3)
- « The Taḥrīr of Euclid’s Elements by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: redressing the balance ». Farhang, 15-16 (2003), pp. 117-43. (2006) (3)
- Medieval Portolan charts as documents of shared cultural spaces (2012) (3)
- The study of geometry according to al-Sakhāwī (Cairo, 15th c) and al-Muḥibbī (Damascus, 17th c) (2008) (3)
- Mathematical commentaries in Arabic and Persian – purposes, forms, and styles (2019) (3)
- Teaching the Mathematical Sciences in Islamic Societies Eighth–Seventeenth Centuries (2014) (3)
- A shared legacy Islamic Science East and West: homage to professor J.M. Millàs Vallicrosa (2016) (2)
- On the Persian transmission of Euclid's elements (1998) (2)
- The language of 'Patronage' in Islamic societies before 1700 (2012) (2)
- Immediacy, Mediation, and Media in Early Modern Catholic and Protestant Representations of Safavid Iran (2009) (2)
- Safavid Art, Science, and Courtly Education in the Seventeenth Century (2014) (2)
- The Arabic Transmission of Knowledge on the Balance (2013) (2)
- Globalization of knowledge in the post-antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 (2016) (2)
- Ahmad al-Karabisi's commentary on Euclid's 'Elements' (2000) (2)
- Cartography in Islamic Societies (2009) (2)
- Pietro Della Valle's Latin Geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628): Introduction (2006) (2)
- Renegades and missionaries as minorities in the transfer of knowledge (2003) (2)
- "Orthodoxy", Ancient Sciences, Power, and the Madrasa ("college") in Ayyubid and early Mamluk Damascus (1997) (2)
- Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī on Muwaqqits, Mu’adhdhins, and the teachers of various astronomical disciplines in Mamluk cities in the fifteenth century (2008) (2)
- A re-evaluation of the 'Liber de canonio' (2015) (2)
- The mathematical sciences in the Safavid empire : questions and perspectives (2010) (2)
- Reflections on the role of the exact sciences in Islamic culture and education between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries (2007) (2)
- Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in 19th-Century Germany and France (2016) (1)
- Ayyubid princes and their scholarly clients from the ancient sciences (2010) (1)
- Mamluks and animals: veterinary medicine in medieval Islam (2013) (1)
- Fourteenth-Century Portolan Charts. Challenges to our Understanding of Cross-Cultural Relationships in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions and of (Knowledge?) Practices of Chart-Makers (2015) (1)
- Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (2020) (1)
- Translation and Transmission of Ancient Scientific Texts (2016) (1)
- The First Seven Perfect Numbers and Three Types of Amicable Numbers in a Manuscript on Elementary Number Theory by Ibn Fallûs (1988) (1)
- 5 The Vocabulary of “Unbelief” in Three Biographical Dictionaries and Two Historical Chronicles of the 7th/13th and 8th/14th Centuries (2016) (1)
- « Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe ». Boethius, Band 52, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, viii + 447 p. (2010) (1)
- Revisiting Catalan Portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? (2008) (1)
- Review of: Shehada, Housni Alkahteeb: Mamluks and animals : veterinary medicine in medieval Islam. Leiden: Brill 2003 (2013) (1)
- Early modern Western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences (2004) (1)
- Review of: Ben-Zaken, Avner: Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010 (2013) (1)
- Studies in al‐Kimya′: Critical Issues in Latin and Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry ‐ Ahmad Y. al‐Hassan (2011) (1)
- Arab Countries, Turkey, and Iran (2002) (1)
- « The Geometrical Works of Abu Sa’id al-Darir al-Jurjani ». SCIAMUS 2, (2001), pp. 47-74. (2005) (1)
- Mujeeb Khan. “The Two Ibn Sīnās: Negotiating Literature” (2019) (0)
- Exhibition catalog, Part II, Harvard Map Collection: "The lands of the Sophi: Iran in early modern European maps (1550–1700)" (2012) (0)
- The Wine of Wisdom. The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam. Oxford, Oneworld Publications, 2005, 396 p., index. (2007) (0)
- Abu Nasr Mansur b. 'Ali b. ‘Iraq (lived circa 950-1036) and Abu l-Rayhan al-Biruni (lived from 973-after 1050) as students, teachers, and companions (2015) (0)
- Who translated Euclid’s ‘Elements’ into Arabic? (2018) (0)
- Science, religion, and education (2016) (0)
- Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa in respect to geography and cartography (2004) (0)
- Archimedes in islamicate societies (2013) (0)
- Research Foci in the History of Science in Past Islamicate Societies (2022) (0)
- Review of: Kunitzsch, Paul and Richard Lorch (eds): Theodosius, Sphaerica : Arabic and Medieval Latin. Stuttgart: Steiner 2010 (2012) (0)
- Islam and Science. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, 349 p. (2004) (0)
- Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (2020) (0)
- Contexts and content of Thābit ibn Qurra's (died 288/901) construction of knowledge on the balance (2016) (0)
- Review of: Antrim, Zayde: Routes and realms : the power of place in the early Islamic world. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012 (2014) (0)
- « Al-Kūhī’s revision of Book I of Euclid’s “Elements” ». Historia mathematica, 32, 2005, pp. 426-52. (2008) (0)
- Review of: Emiralioğlu, Pınar: Geographical knowledge and imperial culture in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Farnham: Ashgate 2014 (2015) (0)
- Multilingualism of early modern maps (2007) (0)
- Learning to write, read and speak Arabic outside of early modern universities (2017) (0)
- Teaching the sciences in ninth-century Baghdad as a question in the history of the book : the case of Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī (d. after 256/870) (2017) (0)
- The education of egyptian women (1987) (0)
- Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World by Zayde Antrim (2014) (0)
- On two manuscripts by Abū Bakr b. Bahrām al-Dimashq (d. /) related to W. and J. Blaeu’s Atlas Maior (2013) (0)
- [Problems of the historiography of science in Islamic societies before 1700]. (2011) (0)
- Wilbur R. Knorr on Thābit ibn Qurra: A Case-Study in the Historiography of Premodern Science (2016) (0)
- The Stars in the Sky and on the Globe: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Visualization of the Heavens (2022) (0)
- Taḥrīr-e Mutawassīṭāt. Introduction by Jafar Aghayanī-Chavoshī. Tehran, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 1383/2005. (2006) (0)
- Theodosius, Sphaerica: Arabic and Medieval Latin Translations edited by Paul Kunitzsch and Richard Lorch (2012) (0)
- Review of: Linden, Sebastian: Die Algebra des Omar Chayyam. München: Ed. Avicenna 2012 (2014) (0)
- Oversimplifying the Islamic Scientific Tradition (2004) (0)
- VISUALIZATION AND MATERIAL CULTURES OF THE HEAVENS IN EURASIA AND NORTH AFRICA (2018) (0)
- THE FIRST PERFECT NUMBERS AND THREE TYPES OF AMICABLE NUMBERS IN A MANUSCRİPT ON ELEM ANT ARY NUMBER THEORY BY IBN FALLÛS (2019) (0)
- Relationships between early modern Christian and Islamicate societies in Eurasia and North Africa as reflected in the history of science and medicine (2015) (0)
- Toby E. Huff.Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. xiii + 354 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $27.99 (paper). (2012) (0)
- Cornel Zwierlein. Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750. xiii + 400 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £29.99 (paper); ISBN 9781316617502. Cloth and e-book available. (2020) (0)
- Astronomy—a temptation : encounters between Western Euope and the Middle East ; astronomy as a Leitwissenschaft? (2006) (0)
- « Simplifying equations in Arabic algebra ». Historia Mathematica, 34, 2007, pp. 45-61. (2010) (0)
- The mathematical sciences and medicine in Safavid Iran (2021) (0)
- Arnoud Vrolijk;, Jan P. Hogendijk (Editors).O Ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture in Honour of Remke Kruk.(Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, 74.)xxi + 535 pp., illus., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007. $256 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- Method, structure, and development in al-Fārābī's cosmology, by Damien Janos (2013) (0)
- Crossing Boundaries: New Approaches to the History of “Pre-Modern“ Science and Technology (1999) (0)
- The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in Pietro della Valle's (1586-1652) unpublished and printed writings (2012) (0)
- Practitioners of the mathematical and medical sciences and their relationship to the Jazira from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries (2017) (0)
- Nadja Danilenko, Picturing the Islamicate World. The story of al-Istakhri’s Book of Routes and Realms (2022) (0)
- Toḥfat al-dastūr (Dictionary of Numerical Value of words) (sic). Written in 1070 A.H., Edited by Mehdī Ṣadrī, Tehrān, Mīrāṯ-e Maktūb, 2007, 366 p. (2010) (0)
- Khwārizmī: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (2014) (0)
- The Interplay of Science, Art and Literature in Islamic Societies before 1700 (2014) (0)
- Teaching Mathematical and Astronomical Knowledge in Classical and Post-Classical Islamicate Societies (2020) (0)
- Participant and Observer Narratives about Medieval Cross-Cultural Knowledge Transfer. Missing, Single or Multiple Translations (2015) (0)
- Elements-reception of Euclid’s elements in the Islamic world (1997) (0)
- The Moon in the Sciences (2019) (0)
- Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (2023) (0)
- Western European travelers in the Ottoman empire and their scholarly endeavors (16th-18th centuries) (2002) (0)
- Narratives on Translation across Eurasia and Africa (2022) (0)
- From One Universal Historiography to the Other: The Reorientation of Ancient Historiography in Byzantium and its Reception in Arabic—The Islamic Organization of Written Memory (2016) (0)
- Science in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds (2017) (0)
- Sanad ibn ҁ Alī: Abū al-Ṭayyib Sanad ibn ҁ Alī al-Yahūdī (2014) (0)
- « Patronage, networks and migration: Turco-Persian scholarly exchanges in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries ». Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, 155, 2005, pp. 419-34. (2008) (0)
- Sanctioning Knowledge* Sancionar el conocimiento (2014) (0)
- Brentjes, Sonja. Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge (Farnham (0)
- Copies of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book on the Star Constellations as Patronage Objects and Their Properties (2022) (0)
- Book Review: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660 (2011) (0)
- Maths Express au carrefour des cultures (2014) (0)
- Ḥakīm-nāma, or Ijtimā‘-i ‘allāma (The philosopher’s Treatise). Together with his “Dhayl-i Sayr al-‘ibād” and other extant poems. Ed. by Nasrollah Pourjavady, Tehran, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2005, XII + 150 p. (2007) (0)
- The representation of Iran in Western Maps from 1300 to 1840 (2010) (0)
- What could it mean to contextualize the sciences in Islamic societies of the past (2007) (0)
- Alberto Bardi. “The Paradosis of the Persian Tables. A Source on Astronomy between the Ilkhanate and Eastern Roman Empire” (2019) (0)
- Science in Persian (2021) (0)
- Elias Muhanna, The World in a Book. Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 11 figures, 13 tables, 2 appendices, index, 214 pp., ISBN: 9780691175560. (2020) (0)
- Introduction: On narratives of amateurs and professionals (2016) (0)
- On four sciences and their audiences in Ayyubid and Mamluk societies (2017) (0)
- Title pages for Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume 23.1-23.2 (2012) (0)
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