Alhacen's Optics: A Translation and Annotation of an Important Work of 13th C. Islamic Science

阿尔哈森的光学：十三世纪伊斯兰科学重要著作的翻译和注释

• 批准号: 0819448
• 负责人: A Smith
• 金额: $ 6.06万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alhacen; Optics; Translation; Annotation; Important

Introduction: The PI plans to collate, edit, translate, and annotate the final book, Book 7, of the Latin version of Alhacen's Opticsis, thereby offering to make available a complete edition of a critical scientific work from the 13th century. Some of the most important and interesting work currently being done in medieval and early modern European history concerns the history of vision and visuality. For this work to continue and flourish, access to good editions of primary source material is essential. Alhacen's optical treatise is one such source, in many ways, an essential source. Within decades of its appearance in Europe in the 13th century, Alhacen's theory of vision had come to shape a theological and scientific attitudes about vision, epistemology and cognition. Traces of Alhacen's ideas can be found not only in all manner of scholastic writings, but even in religious works, in preaching handbooks and devotional treatises. Finally, there seems little doubt that Alhacen's ideas directly or through scholastic thinkers who summarized his ideas, influenced attitudes about art and artistic production.Intellectual Merit: This early 13th century work is very important for understanding Islamic science, as well as the extent to which European natural philosophy owed some of its innovative ideas to these Islamic sources. It will be an invaluable resource, internationally, and for many years to come.Broader Impact: Although this is a very erudite scholarly production, it nevertheless will prove to be invaluable to the international history of science, Islamic science, and medieval studies communities; so, it does have a relatively broad (given the context) scholarly impact.

简介：PI 计划整理、编辑、翻译和注释阿尔哈森 (Alhacen) 的《光学》(Optics) 拉丁文版的最后一本书（第 7 册），从而提供 13 世纪重要科学著作的完整版本。目前在中世纪和近代早期欧洲历史中正在进行的一些最重要和最有趣的工作涉及视觉和视觉的历史。为了使这项工作继续下去并蓬勃发展，获得优质原始资料版本至关重要。阿尔哈森 (Alhacen) 的光学论文就是这样的来源之一，在很多方面都是重要的来源。阿尔哈森的视觉理论于 13 世纪在欧洲出现后的几十年内，逐渐形成了关于视觉、认识论和认知的神学和科学态度。阿尔哈森思想的踪迹不仅可以在各种学术著作中找到，甚至可以在宗教著作、讲道手册和灵修论文中找到。最后，毫无疑问，阿尔哈森的思想直接或通过总结他的思想的经院思想家影响了人们对艺术和艺术创作的态度。 学术价值：这部 13 世纪早期的著作对于理解伊斯兰科学以及欧洲自然哲学的一些创新思想在多大程度上归功于这些伊斯兰来源非常重要。它将在国际上和未来的许多年里成为一种无价的资源。 更广泛的影响：虽然这是一部非常博学的学术成果，但它对国际科学史、伊斯兰科学和中世纪研究界具有无价的价值；因此，它确实具有相对广泛的（鉴于上下文）学术影响。