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dc.contributor.authorVarma, Vijaya Shankar-
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-22T09:38:16Z-
dc.date.available2020-07-22T09:38:16Z-
dc.date.issued2015-06-
dc.identifier.issn0972-1452-
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5257-
dc.description.abstractThe treatise begins by referring to the story of Archimedes using an array of mirrors to burn the Roman galleys in the harbour of Syracuse during the siege of 215-212 BC. This was discussed in a book by Anthemius of Tralles, a Greek mathematician who lived around 500 CE and was the chief architect of the basilica of Hagia Sophia built in Constantinople under Justinian I.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIndian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimlaen_US
dc.titleAl-Kindi and Cosmopolitanism in Scienceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
Appears in Collections:Summerhill, Vol.21, No.1, (2015)

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