Book ID: CBB000080746

Ptolemy and the foundations of ancient mathematical optics: A source based guided study (1999)

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Smith, A. Mark (Author)


American Philosophical Society


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: 172 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Lehoux, D. (2001) Review of "Ptolemy and the foundations of ancient mathematical optics: A source based guided study". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 150). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, A. Mark
Simon, Gérard
Tolias, Georges
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Sabra, A. I.
Raynaud, Dominique
Journals
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
MIT Press
Brill
Concepts
Optics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Physics
Perspective
Visual perception
Geography
People
Ptolemy
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
Carpine, Giovanni da Pian del
Hayton of Corycus
Hipparchus
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
15th century
Renaissance
16th century
Places
Greece
Middle and Near East
Rome (Italy)
Turkestan
Assyria
Bologna (Italy)
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