The Arab Polymath who set the foundations of “modern optics”(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Arab Polymath who set the foundations of “modern optics”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
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Anybody interested in astronomy will be familiar with Arabic science and mathematics during what in Europe was the Dark Ages, for example many star names are Arabic, but for most people in the west it is completely unknown.
It's strange how most schools and universities teach students that "the scientific method" was applied since the 17th century and the majority of scientific discoveries were made in the last 500 years, while it seems, after investigation, that all the major scientific methodologies and discoveries were figured out and used by Greeks and Muslims before even the west was a thing.