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Light-Based Science: Technology and Sustainable Development Light-Based Science: Technology and Sustainable Development The Legacy of Ibn al-Haytham Edited by Azzedine Boudrioua Roshdi Rashed and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2018 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed on acid-free paper International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-4987-7938-8 (Hardback) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and publisher can- not assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2017007536| ISBN 9781498779388 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781498779401 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Optical engineering. | Optics--Research--Middle East. | Solar power. | Light--Philosophy. | Sustainable development. Classification: LCC TA1520 .L55 2018 | DDC 621.36--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007536 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com Whoever seeks the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration and not the sayings of human beings whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Ibn al-Haytham Contents Foreword and Acknowledgement..............................................................................xi Preface....................................................................................................................xiii About the Editors .....................................................................................................xv Contributors ...........................................................................................................xvii Introduction .............................................................................................................xix Section i History Guiding the Future, the ibn al-Haytham Legacy Chapter 1 Ibn al-Haytham’s Scientific Research Programme ..............................3 Roshdi Rashed Chapter 2 Light and Vision before Ibn al-Haytham: The Perspective of Islamic Theology ..................................................................................9 J Van Ess 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 .....................23 Michel Paty Chapter 4 Translating and Interpreting Ibn al-Haytham’s Optics from Arabic to Latin: New Light on the Vocabulary of Reflection and Refraction ...........................................................................................43 Paul Pietquin Chapter 5 Ibn al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientific Pluralism .......................53 Hassan Tahiri Chapter 6 Ibn al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics? ...........................63 Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Chapter 7 Ibn al-Haytham’s Problem ................................................................109 Pierre Coullet and Roshdi Rashed vii viii Contents Chapter 8 Ibn al-Haytham and His Influence on Post-Mediaeval Western Culture ..............................................................................................123 Charles M Falco Section ii Light-Based technologies for the Future Chapter 9 Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century .................................................................135 Azzedine Boudrioua Chapter 10 Ibn al-Haytham’s Thousand-Year Journey from Basra to Mars .......143 Noureddine Melikechi Chapter 11 Ibn al-Haytham and the International Year of Light: His Legacy ...151 Mohamed M El-Gomati Chapter 12 New Short-Wavelength Pulsed Light Sources ..................................165 Majed Chergui Chapter 13 Lighting: From Human Evolution to Sustainable Revolution ..........181 Harry Verhaar Chapter 14 Mediaeval Arab Achievements in Optics .........................................193 Sameen Ahmed Khan Section iii optics and Photonics in the Arab and islamic World, education and investment in Light Sciences and technology Chapter 15 Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries ...207 Azher Majid Siddiqui and Sameen Ahmed Khan Chapter 16 SESAME: The First Synchrotron Light Source in the Middle East and Neighbouring Regions .......................................................221 Gihan Kamel Contents ix Chapter 17 Scientific Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light ......................229 Abdulaziz Alswailem Chapter 18 Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key Figures, Ways Forward ............................................................................................243 Marie Abboud Mehanna Index ......................................................................................................................251
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