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Kepler's successful solution to the problem of vision early in the seventeenth century was a theoretical triumph as significant as many of the more celebrated d
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In order to understand "vision", we have to look into concepts of blindness, both diegetically in typical film characters and in the representation of sight or
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the I
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
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"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings
Al-Kindi
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Peter Adamson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-12-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course