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

简介：PI计划整理，编辑，翻译和注释最后一本书，第7册，拉丁文版的阿尔哈森的光学，从而提供了一个完整的版本，从13世纪的关键科学工作。在中世纪和近代早期的欧洲历史中，一些最重要和最有趣的工作涉及视觉和视觉性的历史。为了使这项工作继续下去并蓬勃发展，获得良好版本的原始资料是必不可少的。阿尔哈森的光学论文就是这样一个来源，在许多方面，一个重要的来源。阿尔哈岑的视觉理论自世纪在欧洲出现后的几十年里，逐渐形成了一种关于视觉、认识论和认知的神学和科学态度。Alhacen的想法的痕迹不仅可以发现在各种形式的学术著作，但即使在宗教作品，在说教手册和虔诚的论文。最后，阿尔哈岑的思想直接或通过经院哲学家对他的思想进行总结，影响了人们对艺术和艺术作品的态度，这一点似乎没有什么疑问。知识价值：这部世纪早期的著作对于理解伊斯兰科学非常重要，同时也有助于理解欧洲自然哲学在多大程度上将其创新思想归功于这些伊斯兰来源。它将是一个宝贵的资源，在国际上，并在未来许多年。更广泛的影响：虽然这是一个非常博学的学术成果，但它仍然将被证明是无价的国际科学史，伊斯兰科学，和中世纪研究社区;所以，它确实有一个相对广泛的（考虑到上下文）学术影响。

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.