Arabic in the Sciences
Book of Optics
المناظر
Ibn al-Haytham's Optics, in Latin from about 1200, founded the optics of Roger Bacon, Pecham and Witelo; the German astronomer Kepler read it in the Basel edition of 1572.
- Author
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, Alhacen) (d. c. 1040)
- Field
- Optics
- Arabic title
- كتابُ المناظر
- Latin title
- De aspectibus / Perspectiva; printed as Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni Arabis libri septem (Basel 1572)
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Sources
- A. I. Sabra, 'Ibn al-Haytham', Dictionary of Scientific Biography (PDF via MacTutor)
- Arabic and Latin Corpus (Würzburg): Optics, Latin (from Risner 1572)
- Risner, Opticae thesaurus (Basel 1572), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digitised
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: 'Optical knowledge in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance'
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