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projectiles, he observed that objects that hit a target perpendicularly exert much more force than projectiles that hit at an angle. Al-Haytham applied this discovery to optics and tried to explain why direct light hurts the eye, because direct light approaches perpendicularly and not at an oblique angle. He developed a
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tried to disprove the widely held belief that light is emitted by the eye and not the object that is being observed. He explained that, if light came from our eyes at a constant velocity it would take much too long to illuminate the stars for us to see them while we are still looking at them, because
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from the eye to an object and back again. Al-Haytham, with this new theory of optics, was able to study the geometric aspects of the visual cone theories without explaining the physiology of perception. Also in his Book of Optics, Ibn al-Haytham used mechanics to try and understand optics. Using
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is spent. He also claimed that projectile in a vacuum would not stop unless it is acted upon. This conception of motion is consistent with Newton's first law of motion, inertia, which states that an object in motion will stay in motion unless it is acted on by an external force. This idea which
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The Islamic understanding of the astronomical model was based on the Greek Ptolemaic system. However, many early astronomers had started to question the model. It was not always accurate in its predictions and was over complicated because astronomers were trying to mathematically describe the
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developed it further. However the Islamic world had a greater respect for knowledge gained from empirical observation, and believed that the universe is governed by a single set of laws. Their use of empirical observation led to the formation of crude forms of the
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to demonstrate that light and color from different candles can be passed through a single aperture in straight lines, without intermingling at the aperture. His theories were transmitted to the West. His work influenced
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when the object is in opposition to its natural motion. So he concluded that continuation of motion is attributed to the inclination that is transferred to the object, and that object will be in motion until the
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had roughly adopted this idea, believing that a moving object has force which is dissipated by external agents like air resistance. Ibn Sina made distinction between 'force' and 'inclination' (called "
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contradicted this and developed his own theory of motion. In his theory he showed that velocity and acceleration are two different things and force is proportional to acceleration and not velocity.
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suggests that the gravity an object contains varies depending on its distance from the center of the universe. The center of the universe in this case refers to the center of the Earth.
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Mariam Rozhanskaya and I. S. Levinova (1996), "Statics", in Roshdi Rashed, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, Vol. 2, p. 614-642 Routledge, London and New York
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had rejected the Aristotelian view of motion, and argued that an object acquires an inclination to move when it has a motive power impressed on it. In the eleventh century
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argued against the idea of the cosmos being eternal by claiming that the eternality of the world lands one in a different sort of absurdity involving the infinite;
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he argues that the celestial spheres were not made of solid matter, and that the heavens are less dense than air. Some astronomers theorized about gravity too,
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Dallal, Ahmad (1999), "Science, Medicine and Technology", in Esposito, John, The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford University Press, New York
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Sayili, Aydin. "Ibn Sina and Buridan on the Motion the Projectile". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 500(1). p.477-482.
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they are so far away. Therefore, the illumination must be coming from the stars so we can see them as soon as we open our eyes.
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from the Greeks and during the Islamic Golden Age developed it further, especially placing emphasis on observation and
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dissented from the Aristotelian view was basically abandoned until it was described as "impetus" by
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asserted that the cosmos must have a temporal origin because traversing an infinite was impossible.
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not only rejected the Greek idea about vision, he came up with a new theory.
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D. C. Lindberg, "Alhazen's Theory of Vision and its Reception in the West",
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Studies in Arabic versions of Greek texts and in mediaeval science
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movement of the heavenly bodies. Ibn al-Haytham published
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was responsible for the movement of the cosmos, which
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in 984 in which he set out his understanding of how
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Classical Arabic Philosophy An Anthology of Sources
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Index

natural sciences
Golden Age of Islam
Transmission of the Classics
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Euclid
Neoplatonism
Al-Farabi
Abu Bishr Matta
Ibn Sina
al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham
Ibn Bajjah
translated
Arabic
lingua franca
Islamic scholarship in the sciences
Aristotelian physics
Islamic Golden Age
scientific method
Iraq
Egypt
optics
mechanics
statics
dynamics
kinematics
motion
astronomy
Islamic scholarship
Aristotelian physics

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