Light Fantastic (TV series)
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Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four. The series comprised four programmes respectively titled:
Title screen for Light Fantastic series.
Ibn al-Haytham
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Ibn al-Haytham, Latinized as Alhazen, was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contribution
Light Fantastic (TV series)
…scholars to penetrate the divine nature of light led to modern science's origins. The programme explores the contributions of Empedocles; Euclid; Al Hazen; Roger Bacon; Descartes and Isaac Newton. The nature of light, and how we see, was first investigated by the early Greek philosophers. Light seemed to…
Engraving by Jeremias Falck after Adolph Boÿ, 1647
Front page of the Opticae Thesaurus, which included the first printed Latin translation of Alhazen's Book of Optics. The illustration incorporates many examples of optical phenomena including perspective effects, the rainbow, mirrors, and refraction.
The theorem of Ibn Haytham
Cover page of the Latin translation of Kitāb al-Manāẓir