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The corpus of sources for the study of the Arabic tradition of Euclidean optics is formed by a few genres of works. First there are the founding texts of the tradition, namely the Arabic versions of the Euclidean text, representing a major part of the original Greek as found in Heiberg’s Euclidis Optica. 1 Then there is a set of dependent texts, which together with the Arabic versions of the text, form the tradition as it developed in the four centuries between and occasionally beyond the Arabic versions of the 3rd/9th and 7th/13th centuries. And finally there is a series of related texts, reflective of or responsive to different aspects of Euclidean optics, through which the tradition may be further studied or its chronological and geographical boundaries further extended.
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Kheirandish, E. (1999). The Arabic Versions. In: The Arabic Version of Euclid’s Optics. Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 16. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1452-6_1
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