Chasing the Light
What Happened to the Ancient Theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3240550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isidoros Katsos (0000-0002-2918-0813, Bridge University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 270-282 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/703515 |
| OpenAlex | W2944908152 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In the course of contemporary investigations into the history of optics, it is claimed that the study of light in antiquity was subordinated to the study of sight. Though previous scholarship allowed some conceptual space for an autonomous study of light, such an approach remains a largely unexplored possibility. In what follows, I want to investigate further the possibility of a luminocentric as opposed to the oculocentric approach to ancient optics. Based on evidence from the Platonic Timaeus, I argue for the existence of a proper physics of light in the ancient world. If my argument is correct, the ancient physics of light ought to be part of a comprehensive and systematic history of optics. Key words: History of optics – ancient physics – theories of light, vision & colours – Timaeus
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Astronomy · Epistemology · History Of Physics · Literature · Physics · Scholarship · Sight · Space (punctuation) · Theoretical physics · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
Plato's Natural Philosophy
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Vision, Light and Color in Al-Kindī, Ptolemy and the Ancient Commentators
Knowledge and Science According to Gérard Simon
Euclid and the Sceptic
Studia Philonica Annual Studia Philonica Annual XScholars PressAtlanta, 1998, viii, 212
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |