Overview
- Provides the first critical edition with translation and commentary of Ibn al-Haytham's On the Shape of the Eclipse
- Contains Arabic text, translation, and glossary
- Gives and overview of all studies of Ibn al-Haytham's work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse
Book Subtitle: The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura
Authors: Dominique Raynaud
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47991-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47990-3Published: 25 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83874-8Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47991-0Published: 16 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices