TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindberg,David C.
TI  - Theories of vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler
T2  - University of Chicago history of science and medicine
SN  - 0226482359
U1  - 612.84 
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Chicago University Press
KW  - Vision
KW  - Physiological optics
KW  - History
KW  - Optics
N1  - 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
ER  -