num_pages: 776
description: This volume deals with the history of optics in the IXth century as well as the transmission of Greek optics in Arabic. It contains the editio princeps and a French translation of the first books written in Arabic on optics and catoptrics, namely, the book On Rays and Rectification of Euclid's Optics , and other treatises written by philosopher and scientist Abū Ishāq al-Kindī. It also contains a new edition and French translation of Liber de causis diversitatum aspectus of al-Kindī.
language: French
title: Oeuvres Philosophiques Et Scientifiques D'Al-Kindi: L'Optique Et LA Catoptrique (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
titlecomplete: Oeuvres Philosophiques Et Scientifiques D'Al-Kindi: L'Optique Et LA Catoptrique (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science) (French Edition)
publisher: Brill