ITREB Thought of the Day: #SaturdaySchool
The great intellectuals and scholars of the Muslim world provide an example of the rich heritage of learning and quest which eventually contributed towards the flourishing of global civilisation, particularly in the field of science. The 11th-century scientist Hasan Ibn al-Haytham spent much of his time in the Fatimid capital of Cairo, and was an early proponent of the scientific method, or the concept of proving a hypothesis based on experimentation and verifiable evidence. In a crucial development, al-Haytham was the first to explain the theory of vision, which occurs when light bounces off an object and then to the eye. This finding paved the way for the modern science of optics.
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