One remarkable development from Arabic, Chinese and Hindu science and technology.
Name: Miguel, Aml Course & Set: BSCRIM 1st year - SET C Arabic Civilization In the early 11th century, Arab physicist Ibn al-Haytham (known in the West as Alhazen) (965–1039) conducted extensive research on the camera obscura phenomenon. He gave the first experimental and mathematical analysis of the phenomenon in his treatise "On the Shape of the Eclipse." One of the inventions that led to photography was the camera obscura, which was named after the Latin word for "dark chamber." Artists used the camera obscura because they realized they could use it to trace the outlines of buildings, trees, shadows, and animals to help them create paintings. A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens on one side that projects an image onto the wall opposite the hole. A similar structure, such as a box or a tent, in which a picture of the outside is projected within is referred to as a "camera obscura." While the camera obscura's technical p...
