Further Note on the Apology of Al-Kindy. By Sir W. Mum, K.C.S.I., D.C.L., LL.D. "
W1th reference to my paper on the Apology of Al-Kindy, I have received the
following letter from Professor Ignatius Guidi, dated Rome, 24th February : — "
You will be glad to hear that in the Propaganda Library (Museo Borgiani) I found
a MS. of the Apology of Al-Kindi, together with the letter of his Moslem friend. The
amanuensis was, I think, a Jacobite (the MS. is written in Karshuni character),
hence he ...
This publication of al-Kind 's "Optics" and "Catoptrics" provides "editio princeps" and the first translation of three books including the "Rectification of Euclid's Optics" hitherto unknown. In this book, the reader will find genuine and new information about Greek and Arabic optics and catoptics.
DEUXIÈME PARTIE TEXTES ET TRADUCTIONS Introduction L'œuvre optique et
catoptrique d'al-Kindi, désormais plus substantielle qu'on le croyait, une fois
découverts la Rectification et les deux fragments - sur les grandeurs immergées
dans l'eau et sur le miroir sphérique concave -, et restitué son traité sur les
rayons solaires, ne se réduit cependant pas à ces écrits, auxquels on doit ajouter
le De aspectibus. Nous avons en effet montré, grâce à ces mêmes fragments, d'
ailleurs, ...
A translation and commentary on al-Kindi's "On First Philosophy," a seminal work of early Islamic thought.
THE NAME OF Abu Yusuf Yacqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, "the philosopher of the
Arabs", is well known to students of Islamic culture, and recent years have seen a
number of studies devoted to him. We need not, therefore, rehearse in detail the
facts of al-Kindl's life and accomplishments, presented originally by Ibn al-Nadim
and others.1 It is enough to say that al-Kindi was born probably in Kufah toward
the end of the eighth Christian century or beginning of the ninth, during the tenure
of ...
