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ISBN: 0871698935 9780871698933 Year: 1999 Volume: 89(3) Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) American philosophical society
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Optics --- Science, Ancient --- History --- -Science, Ancient --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- Physics --- Light --- Ptolemy --- Ptolemy, --- Baṭlamyūs, --- Ptholomeus, --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius, --- Ptolemaios, Klaudios, --- Ptolemaus, Claudius, --- Ptolémée, Claude, --- Ptolemeĭ, Klavdiĭ, --- Ptolemy, Claudius, --- Tolemeo, Claudio, --- Tolomeo, Claudio, --- بطليموس --- بطلميوس --- Ptolémée --- Tolomeo, Claudio --- Optics - History
ISBN: 0871698625 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : American Philosophical Society,
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Optics --- Early works to 1800. --- Early works to 1800 --- Ptolemy, --- Optique --- Perception visuelle --- Ptolemee (claude), astronome, mathematicien et geographe grec, 90?-168? --- Histoire
ISBN: 0871697734 9780871697738 Year: 1987 Volume: 77,3 Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society,
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Optics --- Refraction --- Dioptrics --- History --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Knowledge --- Optics. --- Descartes, René --- Optique --- Histoire (discipline) --- Optics - History --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650 - Knowledge - Optics --- Critique et interprétation --- Physique --- Histoire --- 17e siecle --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650
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ISBN: 022617493X 9780226174938 9780226174761 022617476X Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago
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From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift-which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the "Keplerian turn"-lies at the heart of this fascinating and pioneering study. Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler's new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument-as traditionally understood-Kepler's account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history.
Optics --- History. --- optics, vision, light, reflection, refraction, diffraction, johannes kepler, antiquity, middle ages, islam, imaging, retina, sight, eye, science, art, visual ray, euclid, catoptrics, focal properties, mirrors, ptolemy, perception, illusion, moon, atmosphere, astronomy, plotinus, saint augustine, de anima, alhacen, perspectiva, cognition, aristotle, convex lenses, color, nonfiction, anatomy, biology, philosophy.
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ISBN: 9780226528571 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press
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Year: 1996 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.): American philosophical society,
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ISBN: 0871699141 9780871699145 Year: 2001 Volume: 91/4-5 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) : American philosophical society,
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ISSN: 00659746 ISBN: 0871699621 9780871699626 Year: 2006 Volume: 96/2-3 Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society,
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Optics - Early works to 1800. --- Reflection (Optics) - Early works to 1800. --- Optics --- Reflection (Optics)
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ISBN: 9780226174761 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press
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ISSN: 00659746 ISBN: 9781606189863 1606189816 1606189867 9781606189818 Year: 2008 Publisher: Philadelphia: American philosophical society,
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