De aspectibus alhazen biography
De aspectibus alhazen biography
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Book of Optics
11th century treatise on optics by Ibn al-Haytham
Cover page for Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics in the print edition from 1572[1] | |
| Author | Ibn al-Haytham |
|---|---|
| Original title | كتاب المناظر |
| Language | Arabic |
| Published | 1011 to 1021 |
The Book of Optics (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, romanized: Kitāb al-Manāẓir; Latin: De Aspectibus or Perspectiva; Italian: Deli Aspecti) is a seven-volume treatise on optics and other fields of study composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965–c. 1040 AD).
The Book of Optics presented experimentally founded arguments against the widely held extramission theory of vision (as held by Euclid in his Optica), and proposed the modern intromission theory, the now accepted model that vision takes place by light entering the eye.[2]: 60–67 [3][4][a][b] The book is als