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
One of the oldest dissertations upon the apparent form of the sky was published by Alhazen, an Arab astronomer of the tenth century.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew
After glancing at the crater-shaped mountains on the western and southern border of the Mare Crisium, Alhazen, Hansen, Condorcet, Firmicus, etc., we pass southward into the area covered in Lunar Chart No. 2.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman
The course of investigation, as regards light, was resumed in 1100 by an Arabian philosopher named Alhazen.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John
Like the measurements of Aristarchus and Eratosthenes, this calculation of Alhazen is simple enough in theory.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
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