Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Key Milestone in the History of Optics; 2. Ibn al-Haytham's Legacy; 1 This Edition; 1. The Need for a Critical Edition; 2. Codicological and Stemmatological Notes; 3. Editorial Procedures; 4. Tips on Reading; 5. Transliteration; 5. Sigla; 2 Arabic Text and Translation; 3 Ibn al-Haytham's Method; 1. Ibn al-Haytham's Predecessors; 2. The Archimedean Analysis; 3. The Point Analysis of Light; 4. Ibn al-Haytham' Experimental Method; 5. Ibn al-Haytham's Device; 6. Evaluating Ibn al-Haytham's Device; 4 Ibn al-Haytham's Optical Analysis

1. Conditions for an Image to be Seen in the Darkroom2. Image Inversion; 3. Outline of the Demonstration; 4. The Image as a Function of the Size of the Aperture; 5. The Image as a Function of the Focal Distance; 6. The Image as a Function of the Shape of the Aperture; 7. The Image as a Function of the Light Source; Conclusion; Appendix31 A Tentative Dating of Ibn al-Haytham's; 1. The Status of Scientific Diagrams; 2. The Eclipses to be Surveyed; 3. The Magnitude of the Eclipse; 4. The Occultation Angle; 5. The Geometry of the Eclipse Image; 6. Images in Vertical Distortion

7. Images in Full Distortion8. Discussion; Conclusion; References; Index Nominum; Index Rerum; Arabic-English Glossary; Table of Figures; Plates