Alhazen’s Optics and the European Medieval and Renaissance Perspectiva Traditions in Science and the Architectural Arts
Talk
Professor Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut and Durham Leverhulme Visiting Professor
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Event date
Tuesday 8 June 2021, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Location
Online only
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking required
Event details
York Medieval Lecture
This lecture focuses on the philosophical and architectural entailments of the classical science of optics of the Arab polymath Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham; b. ca 965 CE in Basra, d. ca. 1040 CE in Cairo). A special emphasis will be placed on his theories of visual perception and light, as articulated in Books I and II of his monumental Optics (perspectiva), while also evoking the transmission and reception of his translated oeuvre in the European medieval scholarly context and in the Renaissance architectural arts milieu.