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History of optics
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The list History of optics includes
Alhazen, Ibn Sahl (mathematician) and Book of Optics.
The list consists of 8 members.
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Alhazen
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Overview: Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen ; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. – c.) was a Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist ...Date of death: 1039Nationality: IranianOccupation: Scientist
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Ibn Sahl (mathematician)
Mathematician (c. 940-1000)
Overview: Ibn Sahl (full name Abū Saʿd al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Sahl أبو سعد العلاء ابن سهل; c. 940–1000) was a Persian mathematician and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age, associated with the Buyid court of Baghdad. Nothing ...Occupation: Mathematician 0
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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity
Series of authoritative reference works in the history of science, written by E. T. Whittaker
Overview: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity is any of three books written by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE on the history of electromagnetic theory, covering the d ... 0
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Optics (Ptolemy)
Work on geometrical optics by Claudius PtolemyOverview: Ptolemy's Optics is a 2nd-century book on geometrical optics, dealing with reflection, refraction, and colour. The book was most likely written late in Ptolemy's life, after the Almagest, during the 160s ... 0
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Book of Optics
11th century treatise on optics by Ibn al-Haytham
Overview: The Book of Optics (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, 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 m ... 0
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Treatise on Light
book by Christiaan Huygens
Overview: Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflection & Refraction (French: Traité de la Lumière: Où sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion ... 0
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The Queries
work by Isaac Newton
Overview: Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation ... 0
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Opticks
Book by Isaac Newton
Overview: Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation ... 0
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