Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

8/1/1979 - 12/31/1981

Funding Totals

$34,747.00 (approved)
$34,088.64 (awarded)


THE OPTICS OF ALHAZEN

FAIN: RL-*0004-79

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
A. I. Sabra (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)

The Optics of Alhazen. In the Optics (11th Century), Alhazen developed a new theory of vision considerably beyond the limit reached in the writings of Euclid, Ptolemy, Aristotle and Galen.