THE OPTICS OF ALHAZEN
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President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
A. I. Sabra (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)
The Optics of Alhazen. In the Optics (11th Century), Alhazen developed a new theory of vision considerably beyond the limit reached in the writings of Euclid, Ptolemy, Aristotle and Galen.