A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse - Dominique Raynaud

A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse

The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura
Buch | Softcover
XVIII, 305 Seiten
2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-83874-8 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt

This book provides the first critical edition of Ibn al-Haytham's On the Shape of the Eclipse with English translation and commentary, which records the first scientific analysis of the camera obscura. On the Shape of the Eclipse includes pioneering research on the conditions of formation of the image, in a time deemed to be committed to aniconism. It also provides an early attempt to merge the two branches of Ancient optics-the theory of light and theory of vision.

What perhaps most strongly characterizes this treatise is the close interaction of a geometric analysis of light and experimental reasoning. Ibn al-Haytham conducted his experiments in a systematic way by varying all that could be changed: the shape and size of the aperture, the focal length of the camera obscura, the distance and shape of the celestial bodies. This way, he achieved a thorough understanding. This work represents a decisive step in both the history of optics and the application of the experimental method that was just as efficient in medieval Islam as today.

Dominique Raynaud is a science historian at the Université of Grenoble Alpes, France. He has published extensively in the field, including Optics and the Rise of Perspective. A Study in Network Knowledge Diffusion (Oxford, 2014), Scientific Controversies. A Socio-historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science (New Brunswick, 2015) and Studies on Binocular Vision (Springer, 2016).

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. This Edition.- 2. Arabic Text and Translation.- 3. Ibn al-Haytham's Method.- 4. Ibn al-Haytham's Optical Analysis.- Appendix. A tentative Dating of On the Shape of the Eclipse.- References.- Index Nominum.- Index Rerum.- Arabic-English Glossary.- Table of Figures.- Plates.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 305 p. 75 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 6105 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Optik
Technik
Schlagworte Al-Khujandi • Al-Khujandī • Archimedean analysis • history of optics • pseudo-Euclid • Utarid al-Hasib • Utārid al-Ḥāsib
ISBN-10 3-319-83874-1 / 3319838741
ISBN-13 978-3-319-83874-8 / 9783319838748
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