The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–V

The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–VThe Optics by Ibn al Haytham, perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic Islamic world, set the scene for the entire development of the science of optics both within the Islamicate realm and subsequently in the Western world. This new English translation of Books IVV, which is a study of reflection and refraction of light and of vision produced by reflected and refracted rays, is presented with an introduction and critical

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