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Author Boudrioua, Azzedine

Title Light-Based Science : Technology and Sustainable Development The Legacy of Ibn al-Haytham
Published Milton : CRC Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Contents ; Foreword and Acknowledgement ; Preface ; About the Editors ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Section I: History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy
Chapter 4: Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham's Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reflection and Refraction Chapter 5: Ibn al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientific Pluralism ; Chapter 6: Ibn al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics?
Chapter 7: Ibn al-Haytham's Problem Chapter 8: Ibn al-Haytham and His Influence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture ; Section II: Light-Based Technologies for the Future ; Chapter 9: Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Notes Chapter 1: Ibn al-Haytham's Scientific Research Programme Chapter 2: Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology
Chapter 3: From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason: Remarks on the Nine Centuries Distant Ibn al-Haytham's and Albert Einstein's Respective Approaches of Light as Conceived Physically
Chapter 10: Ibn al-Haytham's Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars
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Subject Light -- Philosophy
Optical engineering.
Optics -- Research -- Middle East
Solar energy.
Sustainable development.
solar power.
sustainable development.
Light -- Philosophy
Optical engineering
Optics -- Research
Solar energy
Sustainable development
Middle East
Form Electronic book
Author Rashed, Roshdi
Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan
ISBN 9781498779401
1498779409