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Optics, Astronomy and Logic - Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Optics, Astronomy and Logic - Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the
appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by
scholars in the world of medieval Islam. The opening paper presents
the historiography of this process, and the focus is then placed on
Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most original and influential figures of
the 11th century, and in particular in his contribution to the
science of optics, both mathematical and experimental, and the
psychology of vision. Professor Sabra then continues the analysis
of how Greek thought was developed in the Islamic world with two
studies of work based on Euclid's geometry and two on critiques of
Ptolemaic astronomy. The final articles turn specifically to
questions in the history of logic - Aristotelian syllogism, and
Avicenna's views on the subject - matter of logic.
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