Ibn al-Haytham: connecting optical experiments and geometry

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Developed a sustained mathematical and experimental study of light and vision in the Book of Optics.

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The early-eleventh-century work is conventionally dated to around 1011–1021. It draws on earlier traditions; no sole invention of the scientific method is claimed.

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Ibn al-Haytham

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