The optics of Ptolemy and its Arabic-Latin transmission
Subtitle: texts and studies
By: Collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin in collaboration with Carl Ehrig-Eggert, Eckhard Neubauer
Contributors: Ptolemy, active 2nd century; Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Series: Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science. Historiography and classification of science -- v. 49; Manshūrāt Maʻhad Tārīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islāmīyah -- v. 49.
Publisher: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: fre
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783829890588
Subjects: Optics; Early works to 1800; Medieval Science; Science; History
Other titles: Baṣrīyāt Baṭlamyūs wa-al-muṣanafāt wa-al-tahārīr al-ʻarabiyah wa-al-lātīniyah al-mutaʻaliqah bihā:; Optics of Ptolemy and its transmission
Notes: A collection of previously-published texts and articles.

Limited ed. of 50 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

In French, Italian, and Latin; preliminaries and added title pages in Arabic.