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Ibn al-Haytham writes the Book of Optics

Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965-c. 1040) writes the seven-book Book of Optics in 1011-1021, arguing that sight occurs when light enters the eye, not through rays sent from it, with experimental arguments. Its Latin version, De aspectibus, appears c. 1200 and is printed in 1572.

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