Islam’s Golden Age Sparks a Spectrum of Optical Knowledge
The history of optics traces back to the primitive lenses of the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, the rudimentary logical conjectures of the ancient Greek philosophers, and the simple geometrical optics of figures such as Euclid, Ptolemy, and Hero of Alexandria. Often overlooked in this history are figures from the Islamic Golden Age, which is generally considered to have spanned the period between the 8th and 14th centuries, beginning with the overthrow of the repressive
Photonics Spectra, September 2020