Theories of light, vision or optics

[Thrasher, Allen]

I was getting together some materials for Indo-Eurasian.  It won't cover everything but when I post it there I'll also post it here.

Allen

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From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:18 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Theories of light, vision or optics

  Allen,

Please let us know when you have completed the dossier.

Luis
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on 10/12/2010 10:13 AM Thrasher, Allen wrote:
> I don't have any positive suggestions, but do have a negative one.  Warn him against Bharadvaja Rishi, Amsu Bodhini Shastra, Bangalore: V.B. Soobbiah, 1931. (In WorldCat with OCLC numbers 557431896 and 317341229.)  It purports to be an ancient work on optics lost and recovered in the twentieth century by yogic insight, and is one of several similar works published around the same time, the most notable being the Brhadvimanasastra on flying machines attributed to the same sage, whence von Daniken, et hinc illae lacrimae.  I have been gradually putting together a dossier on these publications.
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> Allen
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> From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Agathe 
> Keller
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:47 AM
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Theories of light, vision or optics
>
>    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.
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> yours,
>
> Agathe
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