Saliba, George

LC control no.	n 83191949
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Saliba, George *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Ṣalībā, Jūrj جورج صليبا صليبا، جورج صليبا، حورح
See also	Employer: Columbia University *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	United States
Address	gas1@columbia.edu
Field of activity	Education, Higher Islam and science Islamic astronomy Mathematics, Arab History
Affiliation	Columbia University
Profession or occupation	College teachers Historians Authors
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Nat'l. Mus. of Amer. Hist. (U.S.). Planispheric astrolabes from the Nat'l. Mus. of Amer. Hist., 1983 (a.e.) CIP t.p. (George Saliba) Tārīkh ʻilm al-falak al-ʻArabī, 1990: t.p. (al-Duktūr Jūrj Ṣalībā) A history of Arabic astronomy, c1994: t.p. (George Saliba) p. 4 of cover (Professor, Arabic and Islamic Science, Dept. of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia Univ.) Columbia University website, viewed March 26, 2019 (George Saliba is a historian of Arabic and Islamic Science. He has been teaching at Columbia University since 1978. Saliba 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) <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/saliba.html>
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	nr 96006443