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
• Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and... 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. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis ... Lees meer

Tintype in America, 1856-1880

Janice G Schimmelman

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 1288
• A history of the ferrotype or tintype in Amer. photography, from its origin in the 1850s until 1880. Schimmelman, Prof. of Art History, presents a his... Lees meer

Astral Magic in Babylonia

Erica Reiner

• Paperback | Engels | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | nr. 1284
• This is a print on demand publication. Author Erica Reiner collected the Near Eastern material for this book over many years of association with the "... Lees meer