“Ibn al-Haytham and the Legacy of Arabic Optics”

My former Maxwell Institute and BYU colleague Dr. Glen M. Cooper, now teaching at Claremont McKenna College, in California, brought this item to my attention.  (He’s cited in it.)

http://www.light2015.org/Home/ScienceStories/1000-Years-of-Arabic-Optics.html#.VV3tTAezS0s.facebook

I share it particularly because I occasionally receive emails, etc. — often fairly unpleasant ones — from people who deny that any good has ever come out of Arab/Islamic civilization.

(The claim is a sad reflection of the inadequacies of history education in the United States.)