Light-based science : technology and sustainable development /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Boudrioua, Azzedine (Editor), Rāshid, Rushdī (Editor), Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Optical engineering. Optics > Research > Middle East. Solar energy. Light > Philosophy. Sustainable development. Génie optique. Énergie solaire. Lumière > Philosophie. Développement durable. solar power. sustainable development. Light > Philosophy Optical engineering Optics > Research Solar energy Sustainable development Middle East Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Part Section I History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy
chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham's Scientic 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 4 Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham's Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reection and Refraction
chapter 5 Ibn al-Haytham: The Foundifer of Scientic Pluralism
chapter 6 Ibn al-Haytham: Foundifer of Physiological Optics?
chapter 7 Ibn al-Haytham's Problem
chapter 8 Ibn al-Haytham and His Inuence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture
chapter Section II Light-Based Technologiesfor the Future
chapter 9 Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
chapter 10 Ibn al-Haytham's Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars
chapter 11 Ibn al-Haytham and the International Year of Light: His Legacy
chapter 12 New Short-Wavelength Pulsed Light Sources
chapter 13 Lighting: From Human Evolution to Sustainable Revolution
chapter 14 Mediaeval Arab Achievements in Optics
part Section III Optics and Photonics in the Arab and Islamic World, Education and Investment inLight Sciences and Technology
chapter 15 Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries
chapter 16 SESAME: The First Synchrotron Light Source in the Middle East and Neighbouring Regions
chapter 17 Scientic Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light
chapter 18 Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key Figures, Ways Forward.