The Arabic Version of Euclid’s Optics : Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary Volume I Like all classical Greek texts on science Euclids works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. While several Greek versions of the Optika were discovered and translated as early as the sixteenth century sorting out what may have been Euclids original has not been easy. This book presents a critical translation of an Arabic texts and of Arabic commentaries on the text and places the whole in a historical context. The Optics is particularly interesting in that Euclids text was considerably transformed in the process of translation into Arabic equivalents ; in addition several of the Arabic editions of Euclids text (c. 300 BC) contained liberal admixtures of a much later book by Ptolemy (c. 200 AD) of the same title. What was referred to as Euclids Optics the Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al manazir thus became as much an exposition of an Arabic version of a visual theory as a translation of Euclids ideas on the subject. In preparing this edition Dr. Kheirandish has thus not only sorted out the various manuscript versions of Al Manazir but also related and unrelated texts that were often confused with it