The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection: Books IV-V

The Optics by Ibn al-Haytham, perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic world, set the scene for the entire development of the science of optics both within the Islamicate realm and subsequently in the Western world. This new English translation of Books IV-V, which is a study of reflection and refraction of light and of vision produced by reflected and refracted rays, is presented with an introduction and critical analysis.

Ibn al-Haytham (c.965-c.1040) was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who lived in what is now Iraq. Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924Jan Hogendijk is a mathematician and historian of science. He was professor of the history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands