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Book of Optics (Alhazen)
Ibn al-Haytham's 'Book of Optics' (about 1011-1021) argues from experiment that vision comes from light entering the eye.
Open in the interactive tree →Working in Cairo, Alhazen studied reflection, refraction, the camera obscura and the eye with controlled experiments. The Latin translation shaped European optics, from Roger Bacon to Kepler.
Prerequisites
- Geometry (Euclid)~300 BC