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
Adamson, Peter
De Pace, Anna
Feke, Jacqueline
Langermann, Y. Tzvi
Journals
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Publishers
Brill
Institut Orientaliste, Université Catholique de Louvain
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Optics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Physics
Visual perception
Translations
Vision
People
Ptolemy
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
Alberti, Leon Battista
Aristotle
Galen
Guthrie, Frederick
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
12th century
15th century
Renaissance
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Egypt
Middle and Near East
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