Light-Based Science, Technology and Sustainable Development: The Legacy of Ibn al-Haytham

283 Pages·2018·17.997 MB·English

by  Azzedine Boudrioua, Rashdi Roshdi, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Boudrioua, Azzedine, editor. | Råashid, Rushdåi, editor. |
Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan, editor.
Title: Light-based science : technology and sustainable development / edited
by Azzedine Boudrioua, Roshdi Rashed and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan.
Description: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
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
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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
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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