Global Optics
Arab Origins of the Discovery of the Refraction of Light
You’ve heard of DaVinci, Descartes and Newton, but what about Ibn Sahl and Ibn al-Haytham? These Arab scientists were describing the fundamental properties of light centuries before their European counterparts.
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