| 期刊全称 | A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse | | 期刊简称 | The First Experiment | | 影响因子2023 | Dominique Raynaud | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | 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 | | 学科分类 | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .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.. | | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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