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 Matthew Luckiesh
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
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 Henry Smith Williams
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 Henry Smith Williams
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