Studies In Medieval Astronomy And Optics
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Studies In Medieval Astronomy And Optics
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Author : J.L. Mancha
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-21
Studies In Medieval Astronomy And Optics written by J.L. Mancha and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-21 with History categories.
In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers. The articles deal with Latin, Hebrew and Arabic texts, and the process of translation and transmission of knowledge, and focus on three main themes. First, the theory and astronomical use of the pinhole camera in the 12th and 13th centuries; the texts edited here contain a solution to the problem of the formation of images cast by light through triangular apertures, equivalent to Kepler's, a description of the correct procedure for measuring solar apparent diameters using finite apertures, and a derivation of the Sun's eccentricity from its apparent diameters at apogee and perigee. Second, the characteristics of the Latin and Provençal versions of Levi ben Gerson's astronomical work, composed in collaboration with the author, as well as his tables and canons for finding syzygies and the mathematical methods used in the derivation of parameters. Third, different aspects of the survival of homocentric astronomy in the Middle Ages, especially al-Bitruji's model for trepidation and the technique for calculating the hippopede resulting from Eudoxan couples.
Studies In The History Of Medieval Optics
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Author : David C. Lindberg
language : en
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Release Date : 1983
Studies In The History Of Medieval Optics written by David C. Lindberg and has been published by Variorum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Science categories.
Astronomy And Optics From Pliny To Descartes
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Author : Bruce Eastwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1989
Astronomy And Optics From Pliny To Descartes written by Bruce Eastwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
A principal concern of the author in writing these articles has been to elucidate the conceptual structures that underlie the scientific thought of the Middle Ages - the philosophical and cultural assumptions, presuppositions and motivations that determine the way concepts are formed and questions are answered. In the first group of articles Professor Eastwood focuses on astronomy in Latin Europe in the 5th-11th centuries, looking especially at the use, development and interpretation of diagrams in works on planetary motion. The following studies turn to optics and visual theory. They examine Robert Grosseteste's views on the rainbow, refraction and empirical knowledge, and study specific instances of how medieval thinkers, both in the Latin and Islamic worlds, reinterpreted and reformulated the concepts they had inherited.
Optics Astronomy And Logic
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Author : A. I. Sabra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1994
Optics Astronomy And Logic written by A. I. Sabra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
These articles discuss the appropriation of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam. After presenting the historiography of this process, the volume focuses on Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most influential figures of the 11th century, and on his contribution to the science of optics and the psychology of vision. The work then analyzes how Greek thought was developed in the Islamic world, based on studies of Euclid's geomotry and critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy. Finally, some articles consider the history of logic - Aristotelian syllogism and Avicenna's views on the subject matter of logic.
Theory And Observation In Ancient And Medieval Astronomy
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Author : Bernard R. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Release Date : 1985
Theory And Observation In Ancient And Medieval Astronomy written by Bernard R. Goldstein and has been published by Variorum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Science categories.
On Both Sides Of The Strait Of Gibraltar
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Author : Julio Samsó
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-09-25
On Both Sides Of The Strait Of Gibraltar written by Julio Samsó and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Reference categories.
In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó shows that astronomical sources, written in al-Andalus, the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula, belong to the same tradition and emphasizes the role of al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula in the transmission of Islamic astronomy to medieval Europe.
Studies On The Transmission Of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy
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Author : Raymond Mercier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Studies On The Transmission Of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy written by Raymond Mercier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Astronomy categories.
Studies In The History Of Culture And Science
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Author : Resianne Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-11-11
Studies In The History Of Culture And Science written by Resianne Fontaine and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with Social Science categories.
An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,
Ptolemy S Science Of The Stars In The Middle Ages
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Author : Charles Burnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Ptolemy S Science Of The Stars In The Middle Ages written by Charles Burnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Electronic books categories.
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of the stars, dealing with mathematical astronomy (the Almagest) and astrology (the Tetrabiblos). The Almagest and the Tetrabiblos remained the fundamental texts on the science of the stars for some 1500 years. Both were translated several times into Arabic and Latin and were heavily commented upon, glossed, discussed, and also criticised and improved upon, in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe. Yet, the reception of Ptolemy in medieval cultures is still to a large extent a terra incognita of the history of science. The Arabic and Latin versions of the Almagest and the Tetrabiblos are for the most part unavailable in modern editions, their manuscripts remain largely unexplored and, generally speaking, their history has never been systematically investigated. This volume gathers together fifteen contributions dealing with various aspects of the reception of Ptolemy's astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe up to the seventeenth century. Contributions are by Jose Bellver, Jean-Patrice Boudet, Josep Casulleras, Bojidar Dimitrov, Dirk Grupe, Paul Hullmeine, Alexander Jones, Richard L. Kremer, Y. Tzvi Langermann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Michael H. Shank, Nathan Sidoli, Carlos Steel, Johannes Thomann and Henry Zepeda.
Measuring Shadows
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Author : Raz Chen-Morris
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Measuring Shadows written by Raz Chen-Morris and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with History categories.
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.