Light-based science : technology and sustainable development /
edited by Azzedine Boudrioua, Roshdi Rashed and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan.
- 1 online resource
part Section I History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy -- chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham's Scientic Research Programme -- chapter 2 Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology -- chapter 3 From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason: Remarks on the Nine Centuries Distant Ibn al-Haytham's and Albert Einstein's Respective Approaches of Light as Conceived Physically -- chapter 4 Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham's Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reection and Refraction -- chapter 5 Ibn al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientic Pluralism -- chapter 6 Ibn al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics? -- chapter 7 Ibn al-Haytham's Problem -- chapter 8 Ibn al-Haytham and His Inuence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture -- chapter Section II Light-Based Technologiesfor the Future -- chapter 9 Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century -- chapter 10 Ibn al-Haytham's Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars -- chapter 11 Ibn al-Haytham and the International Year of Light: His Legacy -- chapter 12 New Short-Wavelength Pulsed Light Sources -- chapter 13 Lighting: From Human Evolution to Sustainable Revolution -- chapter 14 Mediaeval Arab Achievements in Optics -- part Section III Optics and Photonics in theArab and Islamic World,Education and Investment inLight Sciences and Technology -- chapter 15 Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries -- chapter 16 SESAME: The First Synchrotron Light Source in the Middle East and Neighbouring Regions -- chapter 17 Scientic Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light -- chapter 18 Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key Figures, Ways Forward.
9781315155081 9781351641616
10.1201/9781315155081 doi
Optical engineering.
Optics--Research--Middle East.
Solar power.
Light--Philosophy.
Sustainable development.
TA1520 / .L55 2018
621.36 / L723
part Section I History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy -- chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham's Scientic Research Programme -- chapter 2 Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology -- chapter 3 From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason: Remarks on the Nine Centuries Distant Ibn al-Haytham's and Albert Einstein's Respective Approaches of Light as Conceived Physically -- chapter 4 Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham's Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reection and Refraction -- chapter 5 Ibn al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientic Pluralism -- chapter 6 Ibn al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics? -- chapter 7 Ibn al-Haytham's Problem -- chapter 8 Ibn al-Haytham and His Inuence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture -- chapter Section II Light-Based Technologiesfor the Future -- chapter 9 Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century -- chapter 10 Ibn al-Haytham's Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars -- chapter 11 Ibn al-Haytham and the International Year of Light: His Legacy -- chapter 12 New Short-Wavelength Pulsed Light Sources -- chapter 13 Lighting: From Human Evolution to Sustainable Revolution -- chapter 14 Mediaeval Arab Achievements in Optics -- part Section III Optics and Photonics in theArab and Islamic World,Education and Investment inLight Sciences and Technology -- chapter 15 Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries -- chapter 16 SESAME: The First Synchrotron Light Source in the Middle East and Neighbouring Regions -- chapter 17 Scientic Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light -- chapter 18 Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key Figures, Ways Forward.
9781315155081 9781351641616
10.1201/9781315155081 doi
Optical engineering.
Optics--Research--Middle East.
Solar power.
Light--Philosophy.
Sustainable development.
TA1520 / .L55 2018
621.36 / L723