The Book of Optics (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, romanized: Kitāb al-Manāẓir; Latin: De Aspectibus or Perspectiva; Italian: Deli Aspecti) is a seven-volume treatise...

development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term τα ὀπτικά meaning 'appearance, look'. Optics was significantly...

existing theory by experiment have been used since Alhacen (1027) and his Book of Optics, and Galileo (1638) and his Two New Sciences, and The Assayer, which...

Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959...

principles of optics and visual perception in particular. His most influential work is titled Kitāb al-Manāẓir (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, "Book of Optics"), written...

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...

Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Farisi and Avicenna. The most notable work was The Book of Optics (also known as Kitāb al-Manāẓir), written by Ibn al-Haytham, in which...

of optics, was able to study the geometric aspects of the visual cone theories without explaining the physiology of perception. Also in his Book of Optics...

independently, by Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250–c. 1311)[citation needed]—both having studied al-Haytham's Book of Optics. In Song dynasty China (960–1279)...

mechanical astrolabe. 1021 – Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) of Basra, Iraq writes his influential Book of Optics from 1011 to 1021 (while he was under house arrest...

The Book of Optics was an important stepping stone in the history of the scientific method and history of optics. The Latin translation of the Book of Optics...

his Book of Optics (1021). He combined observations, experiments and rational arguments to support his intromission theory of vision, in which rays of light...

Ptolemy's Optics is a 2nd-century book on geometrical optics, dealing with reflection, refraction, and colour. The book was most likely written late in...

Atmospheric optics is "the study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of atmospheric processes .... [including] temporal and spatial...

work is a significant part of the early history of optics and influenced the more famous and superior 11th-century Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham. Ptolemy...

physical optics. That is, this work is not a geometric discussion of catoptrics or dioptrics, the traditional subjects of reflection of light by mirrors of different...

equally so that the visual axes converge on an object of interest in his Book of Optics. Hering's law of equal innervation is best understood with Johannes...

his Book of Optics (1021). He combined observations, experiments and rational arguments to support his intromission theory of vision, in which rays of light...

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projections of the sun. In his book Optics (circa 300 BC, surviving in later manuscripts from around 1000 AD), Euclid proposed mathematical descriptions of vision...

reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics, which he cited and copied from. The Canon of Medicine (c. 1000) -...

Alhazen (Book of Optics, 11th century). The Arabic translation of Ptolemy's Optics became available in Latin translation in the 12th century (Eugenius of Palermo...

"The book of burners". Ibn Sahl is the first Muslim scholar known to have studied Ptolemy's Optics, and as such an important precursor to the Book of Optics...

his book Book of Optics, he employed a scientific method based on observation, experimentation, and mathematical proof, making him a pioneer of the modern...

described in the Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham in 1021.[verification needed] After the book was translated during the Latin translations of the 12th century...

chloride, and the techniques described in Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics are capable of producing primitive photographs using medieval materials.[citation...

al-Haytham), who formulated it more generally and presented a solution in his Book of Optics. It has no straightedge and compass construction; instead, al-Haytham...

appearance of objects by direct vision and by reflection. Ptolemy (c. 2nd century) wrote Optics, a work marking the culmination of the ancient Greek optics, in...

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique of precisely deforming a mirror in order to compensate for light distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes...

experimental physics in his Book of Optics, where he devises the first scientific experiments on optics, including the first use of the camera obscura to prove...