Theories of light, vision or optics

[Arlo Griffiths]

There is a little work by Wilhelm Rau, Die Brennlinse im Alten Indien [The burning lens in ancient India] (1982) that might be useful.
Arlo Griffiths, EFEO/Jakarta

> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:47:15 +0200
> From: kellera at UNIV-PARIS-DIDEROT.FR
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Theories of light, vision or optics
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> 
>   Dear all,
> 
> A colleague historian of physics asks me for good secondary literature 
> on theories of light, vision or optics, in ancient and medieval India. 
> I've copied for him Subbarayapa's chapter on the history of physics in a 
> Concise History of Science, INSA, 1971, for starters, but was wondering 
> if were available more recent and detailed studies on such topics in 
> more specific nyayavaizesika, buddhist or ayurvedic texts for example.
> 
> yours,
> 
> Agathe
> 
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> Agathe Keller
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