Alhazen
Americannoun
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Alhazen had shown how light travels in straight lines, so that vision depends on a cone of straight lines extending outward from the eye to the object.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
This was the part of his work on which Bacon most prided himself, and in it, we may add, he seems to owe most to the Arab writers Kindi and Alhazen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Alhazen discovered atmospheric refraction, and showed that we see the sun and the moon after they have set.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
Alhazen must have been aware of this latter fact, since it was known to the later Alexandrian astronomers, but he takes no account of it in the present measurement.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
The determinations of the densities- of bodies, as given by Alhazen, approach very closely to our own.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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