The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics: Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary by Elaheh Kheirandish
English | Dec 21, 1998 | ISBN: 0387985239 | 311 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
Like all classical Greek texts on science, Euclid's works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. While several Greek versions of the Optika were discovered and translated as early as the sixteenth century, sorting out what may have been Euclid's original has not been easy.