Description: Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics : A Source Based Guided Study, Paperback by Smith, A. Mark, ISBN 0871698935, ISBN-13 9780871698933, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Smith was translating Ptolemy's Optics into English when the idea arose to create a general, text-based study of Greek mathematical optics, and so he used the first as a springboard for the second. He argues that though the Greek procedures for studying light, especially reflection and refraction, seem similar to the modern ones, the ancient ray theory is very different in conceptual and methodological foundations and fundamental aims. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics : A So
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics : A Source Based Guided Study, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 89, Part 3)
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: History & Philosophy, Cosmology, History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Subject Area: Mathematics, Science
Author: A. Mark Smith
Item Length: 10 in
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
