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16This book provides the first critical edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse with English translation and commentary, which records the first scientific analysis of the camera obscura. On the Shape of the Eclipse includes pioneering research on the conditions of formation of the image, in a time deemed to be committed to aniconism. It also provides an early attempt to merge the two branches of Ancient optics—the theory of light and theory of vision. What perhaps most strongly ch…Read more
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29Leonardo, Optics and OphthalmologyIn F. Fiorani & A. Nova (eds.), Leonardo da Vinci and Optics, Marsilio. pp. 255-276. 2013.Leonardo’s research on the eye and vision has given rise to contrasting assessments, ranging from the apology of his explanation of how the eye works as a camera obscura to the most critical attitude. The negative judgments derive some of their strength from the fact that the practice of anatomy and linear perspective are well documented in Leonardo. Thus one expects him to have had empirically based knowledge of the organs dissected, as well as comprehensive skills in optics. As we will see, no…Read more
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14Architectures comparées. Essai sur la dynamique des formesEditions Parenthèses. 1998."Toute forme a été imaginée avant d'être construite". Cette formule classique, qui met en relief l'un des traits essentiels de la pratique architecturale, soulève plusieurs questions. D'où viennent les images-mères du projet? Sont-elles encore identifiables une fois construites? Existe-t-il des procédés réguliers dans l'imagination des formes architecturales? Cette enquête tente de résoudre ces problèmes par la reconnaissance de schèmes dynamiques de l'imagination. Si le processus de conception …Read more
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68Le tracé continu des sections coniques à la Renaissance: Applications optico-perspectives, héritage de la tradition mathématique arabeArabic Sciences and Philosophy 17 (2): 299-345. 2007.The perfect compass, used by al-Qūhī, al-Sijzī and his successors for the continuous drawing of conic sections, reappeared after a long eclipse in the works of Renaissance mathematicians like Francesco Barozzi in Venice. The resurgence of this instrument seems to have depended on its interest to solve new optico-perspective problems. Having reviewed the various instruments designed for the drawing of conic sections, the article is focused on the sole conic compass. Theoretical and empirical appl…Read more
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3Determining the Speed of Light (1676-1983): An Internalist Study in the Sociology of ScienceCairn International / Année Sociologique 63 (2): 359-398. 2013.This article aims at contributing to the methods of the sociology of science, from an empirical study of the determinations of the velocity of light between 1676 and 1983. Far from being constructed and deconstructed at pleasure, the values of c have undergone a tendentially unidirectional and irreversible process of revision. The competing methods remained in the running as long as they produced an uncertainty less than, or equal to, the best known value. The analysis of “entrances” and “exits”…Read more
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97Scientific Controversies. A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of ScienceTransaction Publishers. 2015.In Scientific Controversies, Dominique Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. If debates focus on form, scientific controversies are akin to public debates that can be understood within the framework of theories of conflict. If they focus on content, then such controversies have to do with a specific activity and address the nature of science itself. Understanding the major focus of a scientific controversy is a first step towa…Read more
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10Définir, à partir des traces graphiques d'un projet, les actions de conception et les motivations de l'architecte à les entreprendre, voilà l'objectif de l'enquête. Quel est le rôle de la représentation dans le développement de l'idée architecturale? Comment se transforme-t-elle tout au long du projet? En fonction de quoi l'architecte décide-t-il d'altérer ou de maintenir une représentation? Telles sont les questions que ces essais tentent de résoudre en s'appuyant sur les concepts de représenta…Read more
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45Ibn al-Haytham sur la vision binoculaire: un précurseur de l'optique physiologiqueArabic Sciences and Philosophy 13 (1): 79-99. 2003.The modern physiological optics introduces the notions related to the conditions of fusion of bi- nocular images by the concept of correspondence, due to Christiaan Huygens (1704), and by an experiment attri- buted to Christoph Scheiner (1619). The conceptualization of this experiment dates, in fact, back to Ptolemy (90- 168) and Ibn al-Haytham (d. af. 1040). The present paper surveys Ibn al-Haytham's knowledge about the mecha- nisms of binocular vision. The article subsequently explains why Ibn…Read more
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77Chronique et motifs de la controverse entre les écoles médicales de Paris et de MontpellierIn Pascal Nouvel (ed.), Repenser le vitalisme: histoire et philosophie du vitalisme, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 33-55. 2011.The controversy between the medical schools of Paris and Montpellier extends roughly from the death of Barthez (1806) to the publication of the Introduction to the study of experimental medicine of Claude Bernard (1865), with a peak during which the controversy merges with the polemic between Louis Peisse and Jacques Lordat (1840-1843). This study aims to document as accurately as possible the arguments that were exchanged during this controversy, by seeking their reasons and explaining how the …Read more
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13La Sociologie et sa vocation scientifiqueHermann. 2006.Ce livre souhaite montrer, par une comparaison des concepts et des méthodes de la sociologie avec ceux des sciences naturelles, que beaucoup des critères avancés pour doter la sociologie d’un statut épistémologique spécial — et, pour tout dire, souvent dérogatoire — ont un caractère douteux. Éléments d’un discours identitaire partiellement dérivés du Methodenstreit allemand, ces critères — réalisme des théories sociologiques, multiplicité et irréductibilité des paradigmes sociologiques, langage…Read more
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42A Tentative Astronomical Dating of Ibn al-Haytham's Solar Eclipse RecordNuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 29 (2): 324-358. 2014.This article aims to test a new method of dating optico-astronomical manuscripts, using Ibn al-Haytham’s Epistle on the Shape of the Eclipse as the test case. This work is selected because of indications that its diagrams are based on reality. After clarifying the observation conditions, an astronomical ephemeris is applied to sift through the eclipses that occurred during Ibn al-Haytham’s life throughout the area he is believed to have sojourned. Next, the remaining eclipses are sorted by compu…Read more
Dominique Raynaud
Université Grenoble Alpes
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Université Grenoble AlpesRegular Faculty
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Areas of Specialization
History of Science |
Philosophy of Science, Misc |