Theories of vision from al-Kindi to Kepler / David C. Lindberg.
By: Lindberg, David C
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TextSeries: University of Chicago history of science and medicinePublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976Description: xii, 324 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN: 0226482340 :Subject(s): Optics -- History | Physiological optics -- History | VisionDDC classification: 612/.84 LOC classification: QP475 | .L66QP475 | L66
Contents:
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.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 285-309.
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.
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