Sudanese psychologist Omar Khaleefa has argued that Alhazen should be considered the founder of , for his pioneering work on the psychology of visual perception and | 2006 , "Ibn al-Haytham or Alhazen", in Meri, Josef W |
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1995 , , Columbia University Press,• 1996 , "Alhazen's neglected discoveries of visual phenomena", Perception, 25 10 : 1203—17, :, ,• He later asserted in book seven of the Optics that other rays would be refracted through the eye and perceived as if perpendicular | harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRosenthal1960—61 |
2002 , The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham.
Note the depiction of the | He investigated the properties of , the , , , and |
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2 vols, Studies of the Warburg Institute, 40, translated by , London: The , , ,• 2006 , "Ibn al-Haytham or Alhazen", in Meri, Josef W | The strongest influence on the Book of Optics was from Ptolemy's , while the description of the anatomy and physiology of the eye was based on Galen's account |
39: "As a rigorous experimental physicist, he is sometimes credited with inventing the scientific method.
29If this had been the case, scientists would not have disagreed upon any point of science | |
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[ ] Book of Optics [ ] Main article: Alhazen's most famous work is his seven-volume treatise on Kitab al-Manazir Book of Optics , written from 1011 to 1021 | Only one damaged manuscript has been found, with only the introduction and the first section, on the theory of planetary motion, surviving |
Ackerman, James S 1991 , Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,• However, Ibn al-Haytham was forced to concede the impracticability of his project.
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