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Subject: [Leica] Book of Optics
From: simon.apekop at gmail.com (simon jessurun)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:53:50 +0200
References: <C66E98EF.50855%mark@rabinergroup.com>

yep thx for the link,simon

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark op 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> A few nights ago was researching the Imax format as I am lucky enough to
> live by an Imax theater so I have that option and I really didn't know what
> it was. Its more than a couple of things.
> While doing so on the Wiki site I came upon some optical references.
> One was this:
> Book of Optics
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Optics
> Written by Alhazen
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
> An Arab man.
>
> " Ibn al-Haytham has been called the "father of modern optics",[1] the
> "pioneer of the modern scientific method,"[2] and the founder of
> experimental physics,[3] and for these reasons he has been described as the
> "first scientist."[4]"
>
> An amazing story. He did has best work while locked up pretending to be
> crazy as he feared for his life as he was expected to control the tides of
> the Nile.
> Sounds better than Man of La Mancha to me.
>
> I was apparently out of school sick the day they taught this guy.
>
> ... The minute you think you know everything...!
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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