Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception (First Three Books of Alhacen's de Aspectibus), Volume Two--English Translation

A Mark Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 1294
• Sometime between 1028 and 1038, Ibn al-Haytham completed his monumental optical synthesis, Kitab al-Manazir ("Book of Optics"). By no later than 1200,... Lees meer

Gears from the Greeks

Derek De Solla Price

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 815
• The first great discovery in underwater archaeology yielded not only a fine collection of art treasures but also the most enigmatic, most complicated ... Lees meer

Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 825
• As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any o... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Free Will

Gunther S Stent

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 867
• Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. This monograph traces th... Lees meer

Tintype in America, 1856-1880

Janice G Schimmelman

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 1288
• The book is a history of the ferrotype, or tintype, in American photography, from its origin in the 1850s until 1880. The heart of the book is the ext... Lees meer

Astral Magic in Babylonia

Erica Reiner

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 1284
• Erica Reiner offers a connection between Near Eastern material and their echoes in the West. a foundation for comparisons between the oriental culture... Lees meer