Scientific Method
The term ‘scientific method’ is defined as a means of using different skillsets to observe and evaluate a certain occurrence or event within the universe, discovering as to how something came to be. These discoveries are concluded with empirical or measurable evidence (observational). The origins of the scientific method? The majority of those who study upon this topic would reel towards the ‘public’ faces of science today; i.e. Isaac Newton, Galileo, Aristotle, etc. However, far beyond these intellectual minds is one who really birthed the origins of the scientific method; Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haitham, an Islamic scholar who is best known for his works on light and vision, producing forth a book dubbed ‘The Book Of Optics’ –
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Through his life time, he traversed through different theologies of scientific theories orientated around the proximity of vision and light. Present during his life time was the belief produced from the Greeks that the eyes themselves propel light rays from their oculars to allow one’s vision. However, through his experimental works on the eye, he disproved this Pseudoscience belief, producing forth a valid base theory. He presented forth the explanation that sight is a consequence from the light emanating from external sources (objects/atmosphere). However, this wasn’t the only marvelous discovery Al-Haitham had presented to the world, there were much more. Not only did he disprove the belief as well as providing the correct and proven means of how sight occurs, he also proved many other theories which were proven to be correct: presenting the ideology that the corneal area of the eye is at a curved angle and is closer to the conjunctiva, which doesn’t coalesce with the conjunctiva: He suggested that the cornea (inner surface) at the point where it links to the foramen becomes concave in conformity with the curve-like external face (outer surface), whilst the edges of the surfaces of the foramen aren’t together as one embodiment but rather are even: Endeavouring by the use of hyperbola and geometric optics to produce