Alhacen Edition

这个项目的目标是完成一个关键版本，英文翻译和学术注释，前三本书的中世纪拉丁文版本的阿尔哈森的光学。 这篇论文于11世纪早期用阿拉伯语写成，大约两个世纪后被翻译成拉丁文，标题是“De aspectibus”。 在这种形式下，它迅速成为拉丁美洲西方光学思想的经典来源，激发了一系列重要的衍生作品，并作为光学的主要教学文本，直到世纪初。 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线、色彩和视觉表现的思想的形成中发挥了关键作用。 批判版将使这一理论为导向的一部分阿尔哈森的工作，在最终的形式访问，不仅在科学史的专家，而且对那些在中世纪和文艺复兴时期的知识和文化史更普遍的利益。

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.