{"title":"The light of the Moon: Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) and Galileo","authors":"Hossein Masoumi Hamedani","doi":"10.17184/eac.7524","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Almost at the turn of the 10th century, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) demonstrated that, contrary to the view held by all the scientists of that time, the light received on Earth from the Moon is not the light of the Sun reflected on the surface of the Moon. In the 17th century, Galileo took up the same problem and arrived at almost the same result. This paper discusses the arguments of these two scientists as well as the context in which they are presented and tries to specify both their similarities and their differences.","PeriodicalId":52135,"journal":{"name":"Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.7524","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Physics and Astronomy","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Almost at the turn of the 10th century, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) demonstrated that, contrary to the view held by all the scientists of that time, the light received on Earth from the Moon is not the light of the Sun reflected on the surface of the Moon. In the 17th century, Galileo took up the same problem and arrived at almost the same result. This paper discusses the arguments of these two scientists as well as the context in which they are presented and tries to specify both their similarities and their differences.
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Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr) journal is being published jointly by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and Cambridge Scientific Publishers, The journal provides a forum for the rapid publication of material from all modern and classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics, as well as material concerned with astronomical instrumentation and related fundamental sciences. It includes both theoretical and experimental original research papers, short communications, review papers and conference reports.
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