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The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV-V: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781908590589)
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xThe Optics by Ibn al-Haytham, perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic world, set the scene for the entire development of the science of optics both within the Islamicate realm and subsequently in the Western world. This new English translation of Books IV-V, which is a study of reflection and refraction of light and of vision produced by reflected and refracted rays, is presented with an introduction and critical analysis.
Author: Abdelhamid I. Sabra
ISBN-10: 1908590580
ISBN-13: 9781908590589
Publisher: University of London Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2023
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.20d
By Abdelhamid I. Sabra
xIbn al-Haytham (c.965-c.1040) was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who lived in what is now Iraq. Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924Jan Hogendijk is a mathematician and historian of science. He was professor of the history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands
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