From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, A. Mark (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Optics > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background
Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics
Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments
Alhacen and the grand synthesis
Developments in the medieval Latin West
The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Keplerian turn and its technical background
The seventeenth-century response.