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Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler

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Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler

by Lindberg, David C

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University of Chicago Press. New. 1996. Paperback. 0226482359 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened - 331 pages. DESCRIPTION: Kepler's successful solution to the problem of vision early in the seventeenth century was a theoretical triumph as significant as many of the more celebrated developments of the scientific revolution. Yet the full import of Kepler's arguments can be grasped only when they are viewed against the background of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance visual theory. David C. Lindberg provides this background, and in doing so he fills the gap in historical scholarship and constructs a model for tracing the development of scientific ideas. * * AUTHOR: David C. Lindberg is professor and chairman of the department of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. * * TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision * Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision * Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam * Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision * The Origins of Optics in the West * The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century * Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages * Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance 9: Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image * Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin * Notes -- with a bonus offer-- .

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Title
Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler
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Lindberg, David C
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ISBN 10
0226482359
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9780226482354
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University of Chicago Press
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Date Published
1996
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