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  1. Studies on Binocular Vision. Optics, Vision and Perspective from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries.Dominique Raynaud - 2016 - Springer.
    This book explores the interrelationships between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular. The author shows how binocular vision was one of the key juncture points between the three concepts and readers will see how important it is to understand the approach that scholars once took. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the concept of Perspectiva – the Latin word for optics – encompassed many areas of enquiry that had been viewed since antiquity as (...)
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  • Alhacen’s approach to ‘‘alhazen’s problem’’.A. Mark Smith - 2008 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 18 (2):143-163.
    In the fifth book of his De aspectibus, the medieval Latin version of Ibn al-Haythamb al-Manir, Alhacen undertakes to determine precisely where a given ray of light will reflect to a given center of sight from a variety of convex and concave mirrors based on circular sections. As applied specifically to convex and concave spherical mirrors, this problem exercised several seventeenth-century thinkers, Christiaan Huygens foremost among them, and in that context it soon became known as Alhazens solution (or solutions) of (...)
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  • A History of Optics From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.Olivier Darrigol - 2012 - Oxford University Press.
    This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It is a clear and richly illustrated synthesis of a large amount of literature, and a reliable and efficient guide for anyone who wishes to enter this domain.
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  • Die Lichtbrechung in den Theorien von Descartes und Fermat.Klaus Weinrich - 1998 - Franz Steiner Verlag.
    W. behandelt zwei grundverschiedene theoretische Zugange zu dem Problem der Refraktion, die beide fur die weitere Entwicklung sowohl der Optik als auch der gesamten Physik von uberragender Bedeutung waren. Dabei treten die Schwierigkeiten zutage, die bei der Herausbildung der uns so vertrauten physikalischen Begriffe und mathematischen Methoden zu uberwinden waren. Die Lebendigkeit der Darstellung laat die prinzipielle Aktualitat dieser Problematik leicht erkennen: das Ringen um geeignete Begrifflichkeit und Methodik ist ein standiges zentrales, wenn auch subtiles Anliegen jeder exakten Naturforschung, wie (...)
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  • The Origins of Scientific "Law".Jane E. Ruby - 1986 - Journal of the History of Ideas 47 (3):341.
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  • Grosseteste and an Ancient Optical Principle.Colin Turbayne - 1959 - Isis 50 (4):467-472.
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  • Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis: Optical Theory and Artistic Practice in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.A. Mark Smith - 2005 - Early Science and Medicine 10 (2):163-186.
    One problem facing Hockney and Falco is the lack of evidence among optical sources to support their claim that artists used image-projection by the early 1400s. After all, if quattrocento artists knew about image-projection, they must have learned about it from experts in the field, and no one was more expert at the time than Perspectivist opticians. As I argue in this paper, however, Perspectivist reflection-analysis posed certain theoretical and conceptual constraints that would have prevented Perspectivist opticians from recognizing, much (...)
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  • Giovanni Battista Benedetti on the mathematics of linear perspective.J. V. Field - 1985 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 48 (1):71-99.
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