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
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
Does the work of Alhazen, author of optical treatises, who understood the weight of air, corrected the Greek misconception or theory of vision, and determined the function of the retina, count for nothing?
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn
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
We have seen that Ptolemy in the Alexandrian time, and Alhazen, the Arab, made studies of refraction.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
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