Theories of vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler.
Material type: TextSeries: Chicago history of science and medicinePublisher: Chicago : Chicago University Press, 1981Description: xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226482359
- 612.84
Contents:
Preface -- 1. The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision -- 2. Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision -- 3. Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam -- 4. Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision -- 5. The Origins of Optics in the West -- 6. The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century -- 7. Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages -- 8. Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance -- 9. Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image -- Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-309) and index.
Preface -- 1. The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision -- 2. Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision -- 3. Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam -- 4. Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision -- 5. The Origins of Optics in the West -- 6. The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century -- 7. Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages -- 8. Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance -- 9. Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image -- Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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