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In general, his model didn't try to provide a causal explanation of the motions, but concentrated on providing a complete, geometric description that could explain observed motions without the contradictions inherent in Ptolemy's model | "Alhazen, a Persian scientist, showed that the eye saw light from other objects |
2002 , The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham.
10Alhazen explored what is now known as the , the fifth in , using a , and in effect introducing the concept of motion into geometry | He was voiced by in the episode |
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, , Physics Today, Pica Press, 29 2 : , :, :, various editions• This translation was read by and greatly influenced a number of scholars in Christian Europe including: , , , , , , , , and | Although Alhazen is often credited with the perceived distance explanation, he was not the first author to offer it |
Aristotle had discussed the basic principle behind it in his Problems, but Alhazen's work also contained the first clear description, outside of , of in the areas of the , , and.
Resolution of Doubts Concerning the Winding Motion• Treatise on the Nature of [the Organ of] Sight and on How Vision is Achieved Through It See also [ ]• Roshdi Rashed, Infinitesimal Mathematics, vols | 1097 — 1169 , and by• in Doubts Concerning Ptolemy: Truth is sought for its own sake |
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Omar, Saleh Beshara June 1975 , Ibn al-Haytham and Greek optics: a comparative study in scientific methodology, PhD Dissertation, , Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations• 1039 , known in the West as Alhazan, was a leading Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist | In a more detailed account of Ibn al-Haytham's contribution to the study of binocular vision based on Lejeune and Sabra, Raynaud showed that the concepts of correspondence, homonymous and crossed diplopia were in place in Ibn al-Haytham's optics |
Mathematical works [ ] The lunes of Alhazen.
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