Description
This book discusses light-based science, emphasizing its pervasive influence in science, technology, policy, and education. A wide range of contributors offers a comprehensive study of the tremendous, and indeed foundational, contributions of Ibn al Haytham, a scholar from the medieval period. The analysis then moves into the future development of light-based technology. Written as a multi-disciplinary reference book by leading scholars in the history of science and /or photonics, it covers Ibn al Haytham’s optics, LED lighting for sustainable development, global and atomic-scale time with new light sources, advanced technology, and vision science. Cutting-edge optical technologies and their global impact is addressed in detail, and the later chapters also explore challenges with renewable energy, the global impact of photonics, and optical and photonic education technology. Practical examples and illustrations are provided throughout the text.
Table of Contents
Preface
John Dudley
Introduction
Azzedine Boudrioua
Part One: History Guiding the Future, example of Ibn al Haytham
Chapter One: Ibn al Haytham’s Scientific Program
Roshdi Rashed
Chapter Two: Science, Philosophy and religion during the 10th century
Josef Van Ess
Chapter Three: 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
Michel Paty
Chapter Four: Translation and Studies of Ibn al Haytham’s Optics in Latin
Paul Pietquin
Chapter Five: Ibn Al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientific Pluralism
Hassan Tahiri (Portugal)
Chapter Six: The Famous Problem of Ibn al Haytham
Pierre Coullet
Chapter Seven: Ibn Al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics?
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
Chapter Eight: Al Haytham's Influence on the Optics and Culture of Medieval Europe
Charles Falco
Part Two: Light-based technologies for the future
Chapter Nine: Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the 21st Century
Azzedine Boudrioua
Chapter Ten: Ibn al Haytham’s: From Basra, Earth to the Gale Crater, Mars
Noureddine Melikechi
Chapter Eleven: Modern electron optics and the search for more light: the legacy of Ibn al-Haytham
Mohamed El-Gomati
Chapter Twelve: Atomic-scale time with new light sources
Majed Chergui
Chapter Thirteen: The relevance of LED lighting for sustainable development
Harry Verhaar
Chapter Fourteen: Medieval Arab Achievements in Optics
Sameen Ahmed Khan
Part Three: Optics and Photonics in the Arab and Islamic world, Education and Investment in Light Sciences and Technology
Chapter Fifteen: Need to Create International Science Centres in Arab Countries"
Azher Majid Siddiqui and Sameen Ahmed Khan
Chapter Sixteen: The First Synchrotron Light-Source in the Middle-East and Neighbouring Regions
Gihan Kamel
Chapter Seventeen: Scientific Translation: A Tool from Shadow to Light
AbdulAziz Alswailem
Chapter Eighteen: Optics and Photonics Research in Lebanon: Key figures, Ways Forward
Marie Abboud
Conclusion
