I should note for completeness that al-Haytham also lived centuries before Roger Bacon. It’s not clear if Roger cribbed, also, but his exhortations to experiment described nothing like the complete system for establishing quantifiable truth found in the Optics.
I should note for completeness that al-Haytham also lived centuries before Roger Bacon. It’s not clear if Roger cribbed, also, but his exhortations to experiment described nothing like the complete system for establishing quantifiable truth found in the Optics.