Written by: Hy Do
Edited by: Lauren Heinzinger, Naomi Raicu
Illustrated by: Naomi Raicu
Five hundred years before the Renaissance, a Muslim polymath shattered the paradigm of optics while practicing elements of what we now call the scientific method. In 1021, Ibn al-Haytham, Latinized as Alhazen, completed his magnum opus, the Book of Optics, a seven-volume treatise with a revolutionary claim: vision occurs because light falls into the eye, not out of it.
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