Ibn al-Haytham
965 – 1040 · Iraq · Physics, Mathematics
Founded optics and the experimental method in the Book of Optics.
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- Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727 · Physics, Mathematics
The experimental method of testing light with controlled apparatus reaches the Opticks.
- Johannes Kepler
1571 – 1630 · Astronomy, Mathematics
Kepler's optics begins from the Book of Optics' intromission theory of vision.
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