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Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler

David C. Lindberg

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Preface 1: The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision 2: Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision 3: Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam 4: Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision 5: The Origins of Optics in the West 6: The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century 7: Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages 8: Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance 9: Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Preface 1: The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision 2: Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision 3: Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam 4: Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision 5: The Origins of Optics in the West 6: The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century 7: Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages 8: Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance 9: Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Preface 1: The Background: Ancient Theories of Vision 2: Al Kindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision 3: Galenists and Aristotelians in Islam 4: Alhazen and the New Intromission Theory of Vision 5: The Origins of Optics in the West 6: The Optical Synthesis of the Thirteenth Century 7: Visual Theory in the Later Middle Ages 8: Artists and Anatomists of the Renaissance 9: Johannes Kepler and the Theory of the Retinal Image Appendix: The Translation of Optical Works from Greek and Arabic into Latin Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Key concepts: Kepler, The Renaissance, Index (typography), Islam, Arabic, Philosophy, Classics, Art

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