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Did Isaac Newton plagiarize his work from Ibn-Al Haytham?

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Sometimes the work of medieval Muslim scholars is given no credit, sometimes it is given too much credit. In this case, I think Ibn-Al Haytham (called Alhazen) should be given partial credit. Three laws of motion The three laws of motion are: 1. read more

Al-Haytham's work several centuries earlier may have been one of Newton's reference books. Newton discovered the source of colour in light. Others such as Johannes Kepler, Galileo, and Leonardo da Vinci were influenced by al-Haytham's work, and may have developed new ideas based on his work. read more

Ibn al-Haytham’s greatest work, “Optics,” appears to have been neglected in the East until the commentary on it by the mathematician Kamāl al-Dīn Abuʾl Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī (d. 1320). read more

Usually the ancient Greek philosophies are mentioned, followed by the “revolutionary” work of Roger Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton. The truth that is forgotten is that those European scholars stood on the shoulders of Ibn al-Haytham (and other Muslim scientists). read more

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