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| - | [[Witelo]] is considered a precursor of [[perception psychology]]. His ''[[Perspectiva]]'' contains much material in [[psychology]], outlining views that are close to modern notions on the [[Association (psychology)|association]] of ideas and on the [[subconscious]]. | + | The '''''Book of Optics''''' ({{lang-ar|'''Kitab al-Manazir'''}}; [[Latin]]: '''''De Aspectibus''''' or '''''Opticae Thesaurus: Alhazeni Arabis''''') was a seven-volume treatise on [[optics]], [[Islamic physics|physics]], [[Islamic mathematics|mathematics]], [[Islamic medicine|anatomy]] and [[Islamic psychology|psychology]] written by the [[Iraq]]i [[Islamic science|Muslim scientist]], [[Alhazen|Ibn al-Haytham]] (in Europe, Latinized as ''Alhacen'' or ''Alhazen''), from 1011 to 1021, when he was under [[house arrest]] in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. |
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| - | Witelo's ''Perspectiva'' was largely based on the work of the [[Arab]] [[polymath]] [[Alhacen]] ([[Ibn al-Haytham]]; d. ca. 1041) and in turn powerfully influenced later scientists, in particular [[Johannes Kepler]]. Witelo's treatise in optics was closely linked to the Latin version of Ibn al-Haytham's Arabic opus: ''[[Book of Optics|Kitab al-manazir]]'' (''The Book of Optics''; ''De aspectibus'' or ''Perspectivae''), and both were printed in the Friedrich Risner edition ''Opticae Thesaurus'' (Basel, 1572). | + | |
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| - | Witelo's ''Perspectiva'', which rested on Ibn al-Haytham's research in optics, influenced also the Renaissance theories of perspective. Lorenzo [[Ghiberti]]'s ''Commentario terzo'' (''Third Commentary'') was based on an Italian translation of Witelo's Latin tract: ''Perspectiva''. | + | |
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| - | Witelo's treatise also contains much material in [[psychology]], outlining views that are close to modern notions on the [[Association (psychology)|association]] of ideas and on the [[subconscious]]. | + | |
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| - | ''Perspectiva'' also includes [[Platonism|Platonic]] [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] discussions. Witelo argues that there are intellectual and corporeal bodies, connected by causality (corresponding to the [[Idealism|Idealist]] doctrine of the universal and the actual), emanating from [[God]] in the form of Divine Light. [[Light]] itself is, for Witelo, the first of all sensible entities, and his views on light are similar to those held by [[Roger Bacon]], though he is closer in this to [[Alhazen]]'s legacy. | + | |
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The Book of Optics (Template:Lang-ar; Latin: De Aspectibus or Opticae Thesaurus: Alhazeni Arabis) was a seven-volume treatise on optics, physics, mathematics, anatomy and psychology written by the Iraqi Muslim scientist, Ibn al-Haytham (in Europe, Latinized as Alhacen or Alhazen), from 1011 to 1021, when he was under house arrest in Cairo, Egypt.
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