The first real scientist – Part 2

This article is a continuation of ‘The first real scientist’.

As is commonly established, it is to investigate a phenomenon to acquire new knowledge or correcting and integrating previous theory, from data collection through observation and measurement, followed by the formulation and testing of hypotheses to explain
the data .

This is how science is done today and I am confident that the progress resulting from it.

But still often alleged that the modern method was not established until the seventeenth century by Francis Bacon and René Descartes.

I have no doubt, however, that Ibn al-Haytham came first.

In fact, because of its emphasis on experimental data and the ability to reproduce the results, often called "the first real scientist."

Ibn al-Haytham was the first scientist to give an account of how we see objects.

Proved by experiment, for example, the falsity of the so-called emission theory (which argues that light from the eyes illuminates objects we see),-at the time accepted by great thinkers like Plato and Euclid, and established the modern idea that we see
because light enters through which our eyes.

What also made that no other scientist had tried until then, was to use mathematics to describe and test the process.

So it can be considered the first theoretical physicist, too.

But perhaps best known for the invention of the pinhole camera or pinhole, and he should be granted credit for being the discoverer of the law of refraction.

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Posted by Fouad Ashraf on Apr 28 2012. Filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry