Baghdad and Isfahan

Elaheh Kheirandish is a lecturer and researcher at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University, as well as graduate degrees in Mathematics and Science Education from the University of Rhode Island. Her undergraduate degrees are in Applied Mathematics and Chemistry. She has taught courses at several departments at Harvard University, curated exhibits at Harvard and Brown Universities, produced documentary films and digital projects, and lectured internationally. Her most recent affiliation is with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, and the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

• List of FiguresPrefaceNotes on ConventionsIntroduction Chapter SummaryChart: Names and DatesChapter Zero: Cast and StageChapter One: Time and PlaceChapter Two: Moon and SunChapter Three: Round and SquareChapter Four: Word and LineChapter Five: East and WestChapter Six: Old and NewChapter Seven: Plan and ChancePostscript: Now and Then; Moon and SunPlatesBibliography

With this refreshing book, Kheirandish offers us a work that is both universal – for the way in which it embraces the history of science –, and is also very personal in its organization, since the author has chosen to write this history by recounting two decades of a personal research itinerary within the Arab- Persian sciences.