Alhacen Edition

这个项目的目标是完成中世纪拉丁版本阿尔哈森的《光学论》的前三本书的批判性版本，带有英文翻译和学术注释，这篇论文在11世纪初用阿拉伯语写成，大约两个世纪后被翻译成拉丁文，标题为《方面》。在这种形式下，它迅速成为拉丁西方光学思想的规范来源，启发了一系列重要的派生作品，并作为光学的主要教学文本，直到17世纪初。无论是直接还是间接，这部作品在中世纪和文艺复兴时期关于光、颜色和视觉表现的思想的形成中发挥了关键作用。评论版将使阿尔哈森作品中这一面向理论的部分以最终形式获得，不仅对科学史专家，而且对中世纪和文艺复兴时期智力和文化史有更广泛兴趣的人也是如此。

The goal of this project is to complete a critical edition, with English translation and scholarly annotation, of the first three books of the medieval Latin version of Alhacen's `Treatise on Optics.` Composed in Arabic in the early eleventh century, this treatise was rendered into Latin some two centuries later, under the title `De aspectibus.` In that form it quickly became a canonical source for optical thought in the Latin West, inspiring a series of important derivative works and serving as the primary teaching text for optics until the early seventeenth century. Both directly and indirectly, this work played a critical role in the formation of medieval and Renaissance ideas about light, color and visual representation. The critical edition will make this theoretically-oriented portion of Alhacen's work accessible in definitive form not only to specialists in the history of science but also to those with more general interests in medieval and Renaissance intellectual and cultural history.