scholarly journals Akinwumi Isola. Treasury of Childhood Memories. Translated by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith. Austin, TX: Pan­ African University Press, 2016. 192 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Oladejo Afolayan
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Childhood Memories

Review essay of Akinwumi Isola's Treasury of Childhood Memories. Translated by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith. Austin, TX: Pan­ African University Press, 2016. 192 pp.

Review Essay: ‘Give it up in despair’: Coleridge and Goethe's Faust

Romanticism ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Murray
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Review Essay: History and Postmodernism

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Lord ◽  
James Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

Review Essay: “Straight Histories of Queer Music”

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Review Essay

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
David Brion Davis
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay
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