"Alhazen, a Persian scientist, showed that the eye saw light from other objects | |
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Unnamed Road, 32848, Ras Tanura 32848, Saudi Arabia - | He is one of the principal Arab mathematicians and, without any doubt, the best physicist |
His optical compendium, Kitab al-Manazir, is the greatest medieval work on optics.
21Russell, "Emergence of Physiological Optics", p | Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, Chapter 5 |
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The camera obscura looms large in traditional historical accounts of photography's invention | "Images formed by means of a camera obscura" |
The British Journal for the History of Science | This started optics, the science of light |
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net Place type, : Doctor | 2006 , "Ibn al-Haytham or Alhazen", in Meri, Josef W |
Bettany, Laurence 1995 , "Ibn al-Haytham: an answer to multicultural science teaching? The Arabs also studied astronomy, the study of the stars.
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