Katsos, Isidoros (Author)
In the course of contemporary investigations into the history of optics, it is claimed that the study of light in antiquity was subordinated to the study of sight. Though previous scholarship allowed some conceptual space for an autonomous study of light, such an approach remains a largely unexplored possibility. This essay investigates further the possibility of a luminocentric as opposed to the oculocentric approach to ancient optics. On the basis of evidence from the Platonic Timaeus, it argues for the existence of a proper physics of light in the ancient world. If the argument is correct, the ancient physics of light ought to be part of a comprehensive and systematic history of optics.
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