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)