Al- Kindi & His Treatise on Light Rays.
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About the book
Al kindi
Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn'Ishaq al-Kindi livedin Baghdad in the ninth century when the'Abbasid Caliphate was at the peak of its Political powers. He is considered to be the Philosopher of the Arabs. He was a polymath who wrote on subjects as diverse as mathematics, physics, astronomy, meteorology, metallurgy, the making of swords, music, and of course philosophy. He was placed in charge of the House of Wisdom by the Caliph Al-Ma'mCin, where he headed the great Translation Movement that undertook the translation of Greek, Syriac,Persian, Sanskrit and Chinese texts into Arabic. This was in large measure responsible for the growth of Arab learning and Scholarship, which in turn triggered the Subsequent renaissance in Europe,
This book is a translation and commentary on Al-Kindi?s treatise on Optics in Arabic, which is held in the collection of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna. The treatise attempts to explain, using the basic laws of reflection, how a system of hinged plane mirrors could have been used by Archimedes to focus the sun's rays and burn the Roman armada laying siege to Syracuse around 210 BCE. It is evident from the treatise that the Arab scholars of ninth century Baghdad knew many aspects of geometrical optics whose discovery is often attributed to Europeans in the seventeenth century.
About the Authors
Vijaya Shankar varma is a Theoretical Physicist with PhD and DIC from Imperial College London. He taught in the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi for almost forty years and retired as the Dean Planning of the University. He then spent eight years helping set up Ambedkar University Delhi as Advisor Planning, before taking a National Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He divided his time between teaching, research and school science education and was awarded the Regional Prize for the Development of Scientific Educational Material by The World Academy of Science in 2015.
Hatem Saleh Widyan is a Theoretical Physicist with a PhD from the University of Delhi. Since 1999 he has taught physics in different Universities in Jordan. He is currently a Professor of Physics at Al al-Bayt University in Jordan. He has held several administrative positions in Jordanian Universities such as Dean Academic Research and Dean Faculty of Aviation. He divides his time between teaching and research.
ISBN: 9789382396628
Features
- : Al- Kindi & His Treatise on Light Rays.
- : Vijaya Shankar Varma Hatem Saleh Widyan
- : Indian Institute of Advanced Study
- : 9789382396628
- : Hardcover
- : 2019
- : 124
- : English
