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The Beginning of the Chromatics in Islamic Civilization up to the End of the 6th Century AH (2011)

Marasy, Mohsen (Author)

Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Volume: 8, no.1
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-72

URL: https://jihs.ut.ac.ir/article_24119_2427.html

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Persian.
Language: Persian

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Color theory Natural philosophy Optics Aviculture Light Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture 13th century Medieval Ancient Greece Pythagoras Aristotle al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)

From bygone to now, Colors are aspects of nature that have been regarded scientists. In ancient Greece, essence of color and its relationship with light and vision in Natural Philosophy and especially Optics has been studied. Results of Greek thinkers in the field Chromatics, from Pythagoras to Aristotle through of translating scientific and philosophical texts, received to Muslim scholars and have been improved. Among Muslim scholars until the end of the sixth century AH, theories of intellectuals like Al-Kindi, Ayub Surrey, Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Hytham, Avicenna, Suhrawardi and Neyshabori are considerable. Review theories of these scientists show that Chromatics in the Muslim world strongly influenced by the Greeks knowledge and especially Aristotle. These theories have been discussed relationship of light and colors, essence of colors, color mixing and identify the main colors.

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