AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, With English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen's De Aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, V. 91, Pt. 4-5.) by A. Mark Smith, Alhazen ISBN: 0-87169-914-1 Publisher: Amer Philosophical Society Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: This translator is a genius!
Comment: The book is very well done and will be in use for a couple of hundred years. One has to wonder, though, why he never thanksed his wife in the acknowledgements section. Bet his wife thanks him if SHE ever gets around to publishing a book!

Rating: 5
Summary: Major work of primary scholarship in translation
Comment: Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, With English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir by Alhazen, edited, translated and introduction by A. Mark Smith 2 volumes (Transactions American Philosophical Society vol. 91 parts 4 & 5) The importance of this thesis to the development of modern optics is well attested but the work has until now only been available in the Latin version with précis. The volume will be very welcome to scholars interested in the transmission of Arabic science to the medieval west and for historians of science and all who are curious how the science of optics developed in Europe.

Similar Books:

	Title: Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler by David C. Lindberg ISBN: 0226482359 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.00
	Title: Optics by Johannes Kepler, William H. Donahue ISBN: 1888009128 Publisher: Green Lion Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $55.00