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BIBLIOGRAPHY REFERENCE: BOOK CHAPTER

Alhazen’s Debt to Ptolemy’s Optics

Author
A. Mark Smith (Author)
Trevor Levere (Editor)
William Shea (Editor)
Year of Publication
1990
Book Title
Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake
Number of Pages
147-164
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Other Numbers
10961
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Text: Kitāb al-manāẓir (Ibn al-Hayṯam)
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