A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura /

• Main Author: Raynaud, Dominique (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

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 ima...

Table of Contents:

• 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.