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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Will this trickle of advertising become a flood? I'd prefer not to have commercial announcements on med-rel. It seems a hazardous precedent. -- Paul On 27 May 2015 at 17:31, Hone, Samantha <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Hi All, > > > > Did any of you know that this year is International Year of Light? Taylor > & Francis have put together a collection page of free articles related to > this. I wanted to draw your attention to one article in particular: > ‘Advances in optics in the medieval Islamic world’. This can be found in > the ‘Light in Life’ article selections here: *http://bit.ly/1ArA31P+ > <http://bit.ly/1ArA31P+>* > > > > This paper has had a lot of attention through social media recently and > has been quite widely discussed. This paper reviews the state of > knowledge in the field of optics before the birth of modern science and the > well-documented contributions of men such as Kepler and Newton. The paper > is not intended to be a comprehensive survey of the subject such as one > might find in history of science journals; instead, it is aimed at the > curious physicist who has probably been taught that nothing much of note > was understood about the behaviour of light, beyond outdated philosophical > musings, prior to the seventeenth century. The paper focuses on advances > during the medieval period between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, in > both the east and the west, when the theories of the Ancient Greeks were > tested, advanced, corrected and mathematised. > There are also other articles that may be of interest to you in the same > section, such as: ‘The sunstone and polarised skylight: ancient Viking > navigational tools?’. All the articles on the page are free to access for a > limited time. > > I hope this is of interest to some of you. > > > > All the best, > > Sam > > > > *Samantha Hone* – Marketing Coordinator | Science & Technology Journals > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: > unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to > report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] For further information, visit > our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion -- Paul Chandler, O.Carm. Holy Spirit Seminary | PO Box 18 (487 Earnshaw Road) | Banyo Qld 4014 | Australia office: (07) 3246 9888 | home: (07) 3246 9894 [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion