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Russell, "Emergence of Physiological Optics", p | He is one of the principal Arab mathematicians and, without any doubt, the best physicist |
His optical compendium, Kitab al-Manazir, is the greatest medieval work on optics | "Alhazen, a Persian scientist, showed that the eye saw light from other objects |
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"Images formed by means of a camera obscura" | Sajjadi, Sadegh, "Alhazen", Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Article No |
: "The principles of the camera obscura first began to be correctly analysed in the eleventh century, when they were outlined by Ibn al-Haytham | The British Journal for the History of Science |
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Bettany, Laurence 1995 , "Ibn al-Haytham: an answer to multicultural science teaching? The Arabs also studied astronomy, the study of the stars | Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography |
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