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    Getting the Big Picture in Perspectivist Optics.A. Mark Smith - 1981 - Isis 72 (4):568-589.
    In the first section I outline the theory of abstraction, discussing first its con- ceptual basis, then its psychological-epistemological basis, and last its causal basis. My purpose throughout is to show how these bases, and thus the theory itself, were not only paramountly Aristotelian, but also eminently sensible. In the second section I draw the perspectivist account of vision within the bounds of the theory of abstraction and show stage by stage how that account unfolds coherently within those bounds. This (...)
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    Ptolemy's search for a law of refraction: A case-study in the classical methodology of “saving the appearances” and its limitations.A. Mark Smith - 1982 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 26 (3):221-240.
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    Galileo's Theory of Indivisibles: Revolution or Compromise?A. Mark Smith - 1976 - Journal of the History of Ideas 37 (4):571.
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    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.A. Mark Smith - 1987 - Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
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    The Latin Version of lbn Mu c ādh's Treatise “On Twilight and the Rising of Clouds”.A. Mark Smith - 1992 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 2 (1):83.
    Written by the 11th-century Spanish Arab, Abh Muhammad ibn MucnOn Twilight and the Rising of Cloudsdh's value of around 52 miles remained standard until the 17th century, when it was revised sharply downward in consideration of atmospheric refraction and barometric studies. The treatise itself survives in a single Hebrew exemplar, 25 Latin exemplars, and an Italian exemplar derived from the Latin. At the heart of this present study is a critical text based on a fullscale comparative transcription of 22 of (...)
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    Picturing the Mind.A. Mark Smith - 1992 - Philosophical Topics 20 (2):149-170.
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    Ptolemy, Alhazen, and Kepler and the Problem of Optical Images.A. Mark Smith - 1998 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 8 (1):9.
    “Although up to now the [visual] image has been [understood as] a construct of reason,” Kepler observes in the fifth chapter of his Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena, “henceforth the [visible] representations of objects should be considered as paintings [ picturae ] that are actual[ly projected] on paper or some other screen.” While not intended as a historical generalization, this claim nonetheless reflects historical reality. Virtually all visual theorists before Kepler did, in fact, conceive of optical images as subjective, not objective constructs (...)
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    Seeing the Light: A Response to “Chasing the Light”.A. Mark Smith - 2019 - Isis 110 (2):283-289.
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    Reflections on the Hockney-Falco Thesis: Optical Theory and Artistic Practice in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.A. Mark Smith - 2005 - Early Science and Medicine 10 (2):163-186.
    One problem facing Hockney and Falco is the lack of evidence among optical sources to support their claim that artists used image-projection by the early 1400s. After all, if quattrocento artists knew about image-projection, they must have learned about it from experts in the field, and no one was more expert at the time than Perspectivist opticians. As I argue in this paper, however, Perspectivist reflection-analysis posed certain theoretical and conceptual constraints that would have prevented Perspectivist opticians from recognizing, much (...)
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    Alhacen’s approach to ‘‘alhazen’s problem’’.A. Mark Smith - 2008 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 18 (2):143-163.
    In the fifth book of his De aspectibus, the medieval Latin version of Ibn al-Haythamb al-Manir, Alhacen undertakes to determine precisely where a given ray of light will reflect to a given center of sight from a variety of convex and concave mirrors based on circular sections. As applied specifically to convex and concave spherical mirrors, this problem exercised several seventeenth-century thinkers, Christiaan Huygens foremost among them, and in that context it soon became known as Alhazens solution (or solutions) of (...)
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    Ptolemy, Alhacen, and Ibn Mu'adh and the Problem of Atmospheric Refraction.A. Mark Smith - 2003 - Centaurus 45 (1-4):100-115.
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    The alhacenian account of spatial perception and its epistemological implications.A. Mark Smith - 2005 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2):219-240.
    From the late thirteenth to the early seventeenth century, the process of visual imaging was understood in the Latin West as an essentially subjective act initiated by the eye and completed by the brain. The crystalline lens took center stage in this act, its role determined by its peculiar physical and sensitive capacities. As a physical body, on the one hand, it was disposed to accept the physical impressions of light and color radiating to it from external objects. As a (...)
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    Le De aspectibus d'Alhacen: Révolutionnaire ou réformiste?A. Mark Smith - 2007 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 60 (1):65-82.
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    The latin source of the fourteenth-century italian translation of alhacen's de aspectibus (vat. Lat. 4595).A. Mark Smith - 2001 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 11 (1):27-43.
    That the medieval Latin version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitāb al-Manā[zdotu]ir was translated into Italian in the fourteenth century has been known for well over a century. Recent studies have shown that this translation, which is contained in Vat. Lat. 4595, was instrumental in the composition of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Commentario terzo on art. Some eight years ago, the author of the present article tentatively identified the actual manuscript-source of that translation as MS Royal 12.G.7, which is currently held in the British (...)
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    Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology, and Religious Life (review). [REVIEW]A. Mark Smith - 2006 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (3):473-474.
    A. Mark Smith - Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology, and Religious Life - Journal of the History of Philosophy 44:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 44.3 473-474 Dallas G. Denery, II. Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology, and Religious Life. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought , 63. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x + 202. Cloth, $75.00. Among the metaphors we live by , visual (...)
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    (1 other version)A. I. Sabra. The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham. Books I, II, II: On Direct Vision. With Translation, Introduction, Commentary, Glossaries. London: The Warburg Institute, 1989. Pp. 735 . ISBN 0-85481-072-2. [REVIEW]A. Mark Smith - 1992 - British Journal for the History of Science 25 (3):358-359.
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    (1 other version)Dan Burton. Nicole Oresme’s De visione stellarum : A Critical Edition of Oresme’s Treatise on Optics and Atmospheric Refraction, with an Introduction, Commentary, and English Translation. xii + 319 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. $129. [REVIEW]A. Mark Smith - 2007 - Isis 98 (4):825-826.
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    (1 other version)Johannes Kepler, optics. Paralipomena to witelo & optical part of astronomy. English translation by William H. Donahue. Sante fe: Green lion press, 2000. Pp. XV+459. Isbn 1-888009-12-8. $55.00. [REVIEW]A. Mark Smith - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Science 35 (2):213-250.
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