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A different way to ask how we see

A seventeenth-century engraved depiction of Ibn al-Haytham, from the frontispiece of Selenographia.

Discover a scholar whose work on optics helped reshape explanations of vision and light.

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Adolph Boÿ, engraved by Jeremias Falck. Used as the frontispiece to Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia, 1647 / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons

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