Ibn al-Haytham

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

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Culture and Civilization

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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Introduction. Ibn al-Haytham: from basra to cairo.

PART ONE: MATHEMATICS

Chapter I: Quadrature of lunes and of the circle

Chapter 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

Chapter III: Isoperimetric and isepiphanic figures

Chapter IV: Conic sections: theory and applications. 1

Chapter 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

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

Chapter VII: Number Theory

PART TWO: OPTICS

Chapter VIII: The reform of optics

VIII. 1: Light and vision

VIII. 2: Light and colours

Chapter IX: Catoptrics, anaclastics and dioptrics

IX. 1: Reflection

IX. 2: Refraction

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 noon 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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.