Ibn al-Haytham

The Emergence of Scientific Modernity
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-32349-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

Ibn al-Haytham: The Emergence of Scientific Modernity offers the first comprehensive monograph on one of the most brilliant figures of the medieval intellectual world.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rashed, Roshdi

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Ibn al-Haytham: from Basra to Cairo

PART ONE: MATHEMATICS

I Quadrature of lunes and of the circle

II Finding surface areas and volumes of solids bounded by curves

II.1. Euclid, Elements X, proposition 1
II.2. On the Measurement of the Paraboloid
II.3. The volume of the sphere

III Isoperimetric and isepiphanic figures

IV Conic sections: theory and applications 1

V Conic sections: theory and applications 2
Conic sections and geometrical constructions
V.1: The construction of the regular heptagon
V.2: On the construction of the heptagon in a circle
V.3: The division of Archimedes' straight line
V.4: On a solid numerical problem

VI Point-to-point transformations and the new geometrical discipline: the knowns

VII Number theory

PART TWO: OPTICS

VIII The reform of optics

VIII.1: Light and vision

VIII.2: Light and colours

IX Catoptrics, anaclastics, and dioptrics

IX.1: Reflection
IX.2: Refraction  X Burning mirrors, anaclastics, and dioptrics

X.1: Burning mirrors in the ninth to the eleventh centuries: from anaclastics to dioptrics
X.1.1: Al-Kindi, Ibn Luqa, and their successors
X.1.2: Ibn Sahl and Ibn al-Haytham
X.1.3: The heirs of Ibn al-Haytham’s research on anaclastics in Arabic and in Latin
X.2: Ibn Sahl: the geometrical theory of lenses
X.3: Ibn al-Haytham and the development of dioptrics
X.4: The burning sphere and the introduction of algorithmic methods: Kamal al-Din al-Farisi

PART THREE: ASTRONOMY

XI Ibn al-Haytham’s new astronomy

XI.1: Ibn al-Haytham’s work in astronomy

XI.2: The Configuration of the Motions of Each of the Seven Wandering Stars

XI. 2.1: On the variety of the heights
XI. 2.2: On the hour lines
XI. 2.3: On the correction of operations in astronomy

XII: The structure of The Configuration of the Motions

XII.1: Research on variations
XII.2: Planetary theory
XII. 2.1: The apparent motion of the heavenly bodies
XII. 2.1.1: The apparent motion of the moon between its rising and its meridian passage
XII. 2.1.2: The apparent motion of the sun between its rising and its meridian passage
XII. 2.1.3: The apparent motion of each of the five planets between its rising and its meridian passage
XII. 2.2: The inclination of the wandering stars with respect to the equator

PART FOUR: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

XIII Principles and fundamental concepts of mathematics: magnitudes

XIII.1: The concept of magnitude

XIII.2: The comparison of magnitudes
XIII.3: The concept of spatiality: place
XIII.4: Parallel lines

XIV: Methods of proof and of discovery

XIV.1: The analytic art
XIV.2: Direct demonstration and apagogic demonstration

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the former Director of the Centre for History of Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.

Translator:

J. V. Field is a historian of science and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.