From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Smith, A. Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Optics--History.
• Optics.
• History.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Contents:

• The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background
• Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics
• Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments
• Alhacen and the grand synthesis
• Developments in the medieval Latin West
• The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance
• The Keplerian turn and its technical background
• The seventeenth-century response.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780226174761
• 022617476X

OCLC:

871670500