Author : Ptolemy,A. Mark Smith
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 0871698625
Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception by Ptolemy,A. Mark Smith Pdf
This is a print on demand Publication. This is a reprint, this is not an original. Contents: Introduction; Ptolemy: A Biographical Sketch; The "Optics": A Biographical Sketch; An Overview of the "Optics"; The Historical Influence of the "Optics"; English Translation; & Bibliography. The English translation of this text is based upon Albert Lejeune's critical Latin text of 1956, which was reprinted in the 1990s along with a French translation & supplementary annotations. Illus.