Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

1/1/1979 - 12/31/1981

Funding Totals

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


The Optics of Alhazen

FAIN: RL-000479-79

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
A. I. Sabra (Project Director: January 1979 to present)

To translate the eleventh century books of the OPTICS, a large work which developed ideas on light and vision considerabably beyond the limit they had reached in the works of Euclid, Ptolemy, Aristotle and Galen.