425: "Alhazen and the Book of Optics - 1011AD"

Interesting Things with JC #425: "Alhazen & the Book of Optics - 1011AD." Spending a decade in prison from 1011 to 1021, the greatest physicist of the medieval era published a seven-volume dissertation on optics, physics, mathematics, anatomy, and psychology called the Book of Optics.


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