From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2015.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Introduction 2. The emergence of optics as a science: the Greek and early Greco-Roman background 3. Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics 4. Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments 5. Alhacen and the grand synthesis 6. Developments in the medieval Latin West 7. The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance 8. The Keplerian turn and its technical background 9. The seventeenth-century response. Bibliography. Index
