From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

Title	From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.
Publication Date:	2015
Publication Place	Chicago ; London - University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subject	Optics -- History.
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	457
Physical Dimensions	24 cm
Library:	The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID	3100001~!115698~!4766
Library Location	HS-SS Stacks
Date	2015
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and index.. 115698. xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
İçindekiler	Introduction -- The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background -- Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics -- Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments -- Alhacen and the grand synthesis -- Developments in the medieval Latin West -- The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The Keplerian turn and its technical background -- The seventeenth-century response.
ISBN	9780226174761 (cloth : alkaline paper), 022617476X (cloth : alkaline paper)

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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

Publication Date 2015

Publication Place Chicago ; London - University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Subject Optics -- History.

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 457

Physical Dimensions 24 cm

Library The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Record ID 3100001~!115698~!4766

Library Location HS-SS Stacks

Date 2015

Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and index.. 115698. xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

İçindekiler Introduction -- The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background -- Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics -- Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments -- Alhacen and the grand synthesis -- Developments in the medieval Latin West -- The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The Keplerian turn and its technical background -- The seventeenth-century response.

ISBN 9780226174761 (cloth : alkaline paper), 022617476X (cloth : alkaline paper)