A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham's On the Shape of the Eclipse
Dominique Raynaud
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A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham's On the Shape of the Eclipse

The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura

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This book provides the first critical edition of Ibn al-Haytham's On the Shape of the Eclipse with English translation and commentary, which records the first scientific analysis of the camera obscura. On the Shape of the Eclipse includes pioneering research on the conditions of formation of the image, in a time deemed to be committed to aniconism. It also provides an early attempt to merge the two branches of Ancient optics-the theory of light and theory of vision.What perhaps most strongly characterizes this treatise is the close interaction of a geometric analysis of light and experimental ...