Year: 2016
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: For many early thinkers and natural philosophers, optics was considered the most fundamental of the natural sciences. Human efforts to understand vision and the nature of light remained at the forefront of intellectual endeavors for well over 3000 years. A study of optics in the Western and Islamic cultures provides an understanding of the intellectual growth of these societies. This article attempts to retrace this history. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Springer eBooks
Author: M. Suhail Zubairy
Institution: Texas A&M University
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2561348581