Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations and Transcription of Foreign Languages xvii
6. Chapter One. Introduction 1
7. Chapter Two. The Recursive Argument Method of Medieval Science 11
8. Chapter Three. From College and Universitas to University 37
9. Chapter Four. Buddhist Central Asian Invention of the Method 50
10. Chapter Five. Islamization in Classical Arabic Central Asia 76
11. Chapter Six. Transmission to Medieval Western Europe 100
12. Chapter Seven. India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and Other Control Cases 121
13. Chapter Eight. Conclusion 147
14. Appendix A: On the Latin Translations of Avicenna’s Works 167
15. Appendix B: On Peter of Poitiers 171
16. Appendix C: The Charter of the Collège des Dix-huit 186
17. References 187
18. Index 199