A. I. Sabra
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Egyptian historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III of Ibn al-Haytham's seven book Kitab al-Manazir , written in Arabic in the 11th century.
A. I. Sabra's Published Works
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- The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam: A Preliminary Statement (1987) (219)
- Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton (1981) (213)
- An Introduction To Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1964) (191)
- Situating Arabic Science: Locality versus Essence (1996) (108)
- Avicenna on the Subject Matter of Logic (1980) (82)
- The Enterprise Of Science In Islam New Perspectives (2003) (42)
- Simplicius's Proof of Euclid's Parallels Postulate (1969) (37)
- Configuring the Universe: Aporetic, Problem Solving, and Kinematic Modeling as Themes of Arabic Astronomy (1998) (37)
- A Twelfth-Century Defence of the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism (1965) (18)
- Ibn Al-Haytham's Criticisms of Ptolemy's Optics (1966) (18)
- Ibn al-Haytham's lemmas for solving “Alhazen's problem” (1982) (18)
- The simple ontology of kalăm atomism: an outline. (2009) (16)
- Optics, Astronomy and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy (1994) (14)
- Thābit Ibn Qurra on Euclid's Parallels Postulate (1968) (13)
- Newton and the "Bigness" of Vibrations (1963) (7)
- Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World: With an Edition of the Unpublished Parts of Ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Physics. P. Lettinck (1996) (5)
- Reply to Saliba (2000) (5)
- The Authorship of the Liber de crepusculis, an Eleventh-Century Work on Atmospheric Refraction (1967) (4)
- The Enterprise of Science in Islam (2015) (2)
- a note on a suggested Modification of Newton's Corpuscular Theory of Light to Reconcile it with Foucault's Experiment of 1850 (1954) (1)
- Summaries of Arabic Articles in this Issue (1978) (0)
- 1 Identifying adequate models in physico-mathematics : Descartes analysis of the rainbow (2012) (0)
- Theories of Light, from Descartes to Newton, 2nd ed. (1984) (0)
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- University of California, San Francisco
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- London School of Economics
- Alexandria University
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of California, Irvine
- Cairo University
- University of California, San Diego
- Warburg Institute
- Princeton University
- University of California, Riverside
- University of California, Davis