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It was mentioned while discussing the development of the scientific method and how physical thought has evolved over time, specifically highlighting Ibn al-Haytham's contributions.
I was just reading a book written by Albert Einstein or someone else in 1938, right? And so he was, it's called The Evolution of Physics.
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It was mentioned while discussing the development of the scientific method and how physical thought has evolved over time, specifically highlighting Ibn al-Haytham's contributions.
I was just reading a book written by Albert Einstein or someone else in 1938, right? And so he was, it's called The Evolution of Physics.
And so the thing that he picked up on that I was unaware of, so, you know, one thing I knew that, you know, my fellow Western scientists typically don't know is Ibn Al Haitham, you know, the guy who wrote the book of optics and, you know, was sort of like, you know, in the golden age of Islam.