Arabic Science of Light: The birth of modern optics and of the experimental method

Q4 Physics and Astronomy

Europhysics News Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1051/epn/2020301

A. Boudrioua, M. Chergui, R. Rashed

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Abstract

A millenium ago, the world witnessed a major revolution via the field of Optics. The study of Light, freed from postulates and axiomatic approaches, by the Arab Scholar Ibn-Al-Haytham marked the birth of the experimental method with its observational and analytical protocols, and the use of mathematics in formalising them. This revolution lead to the awakening of Sciences in Europe throughout the middle ages till the Renaissance.

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阿拉伯光科学:现代光学和实验方法的诞生

一千年前，世界通过光学领域见证了一场重大革命。阿拉伯学者Ibn-Al-Haytham对光的研究，从假设和公理方法中解放出来，标志着实验方法的诞生，它具有观察和分析协议，并使用数学将它们形式化。这场革命导致了整个中世纪直到文艺复兴时期欧洲科学的觉醒。

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