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
Vitello’s work is to a very great extent based upon Alhazen and some of the earlier writers, and was first published in 1535.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
The magnifying power of the segment of a glass sphere had been noted by Alhazen, who had observed also that the magnification was increased by increasing the size of the segment used.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
The diagram will make the method of Alhazen clear.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
Alhazen carried forward these studies, and was led through them to make the first recorded scientific estimate of the phenomena of twilight and of the height of the atmosphere.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
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