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A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V. The optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV-V: on reflection and images seen by reflection, by A. I. Sabra, prepared for publication by J.P. Hogendijk [Book Review]
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Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, London, University of London Press, 2023, xiv + 343 pp., 49 halftones, $120.00 (hardback); £90.00, ISBN 978-1-908590-58-9 (Warburg Institute Studies and Texts 8). The late Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924–2013) devoted a significant part of his work to the critical edition and English translation of the optics of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham…Author's Profile
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Abdelhamid I. Sabra (ed. and trans.), prepared for publication by Jan P. Hogendijk, The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–V: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection London: University of London Press, 2023. Pp. 396. ISBN 978-1-908590-58-9. £90.00 (hardback). [REVIEW]Yusuf Tayara - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-3.
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