Contributions of early Arab scholars to color science

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

doi:10.1117/12.2272724

6 September 2017 Contributions of early Arab scholars to color science

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Proceedings Volume 10367, Light in Nature VI; 103670B (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272724
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Islamic world made important discoveries in the field of color science during the medieval era. These included many fundamental ideas on the nature of color. Some of the first hue scales, though partial were developed by these scholars. They also showed that color was a percept and light and color were ontologically distinct. Other contributions by these scholars include descriptions of the color mixtures, color tops, color theory, etc. A few of these contributions will be discussed in this paper with particular attention to the work of Ibn al-Haytham on color.

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Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan "Contributions of early Arab scholars to color science", Proc. SPIE 10367, Light in Nature VI, 103670B (6 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272724

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