The optics of Ptolemy and its Arabic-Latin transmission : texts and studies / Collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin in collaboration with Carl Ehrig-Eggert, Eckhard Neubauer.

Format
Book
Language
  • French
  • Italian
  • Latin
Published/​Created
Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 2007.
Description
344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Series
  • Veröffentlichungen des Institutes für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften. Tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-taṣnīfuhā fī al-ʻālam al-Islāmī ; v. 49. [More in this series]
  • Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science. Historiography and classification of science, 1860-7063 ; v. 49
Notes
  • A collection of previously-published texts and articles.
  • Limited ed. of 50 copies.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Language note
In French, Italian, and Latin; preliminaries and added title pages in Arabic.
Contents
  • De l'Optique de Ptolémée, comparée à celle qui porte le nom d'Euclide et à celles d'Alhazen et de Vitellon / Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
  • Mémoire sur l'Optique de Ptolémée, et sur le projet de faire imprimer cet ouvrage d'après les deux manuscrits qui existent à la Bibliothèque du Roi. 2. Note du Memoire sur l'Optique de Ptolémée / Jean-Jacques Caussin
  • Ptolémée, auteur de l'Optique traduite en Latin par Ammiratus Eugenius Siculus sur une traduction arabe incomplète, est-il le même que Claude Ptolémée, auteur de l'Almageste? / Th. Henri Martin
  • Intorno ad una traduzione latina dell'Ottica di Tolomeo / Baldassarre Boncompagni
  • Sulla oppotunità di pubblicare una traduzione inedita dell'Ottica di Tolomeo / Gilberto Govi
  • L'ottica di Claudio Tolomeo da Eugenio ammiraglio di Sicilia
  • scrittore del secolo XII, ridotta in latino sovra la traduzione araba di un testo greco imperfetto. Ora per la prima volta conforme a un codice della Biblioteca Ambrosiana ... pubblicata. Torino 1885 / Gilberto Govi (ed.)
  • Review of: Govi, Gilberto (ed.) L'ottica di Claudio Tolomeo da Eugenio ammiraglio di Sicilia ... Torino 1885 / Antonio Favaro
  • Sur l'optique de Claude Ptolémée / Henri Narducci.
Other title(s)
  • Baṣrīyāt Baṭlamyūs wa-al-muṣanafāt wa-al-tahārīr al-ʻarabiyah wa-al-lātīniyah al-mutaʻaliqah bihā: nusūs wa-dirāsāt
  • Optics of Ptolemy and its transmission
ISBN
  • 9783829890588
  • 3829890583
OCLC
238734138
RCP
H - S
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