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Summary

Description The penetration of the sun light forms the conic shape and its reverse inside the dark room.
Date between 1011 and 1021
date QS:P,+1050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1011-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1021-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Vectorized by User:Mysid in Inkscape from Mustafa Nazeef Bec (1942), ‘Al-Hacen Ibn Al-Haitham; his optical research and discoveries’, in Arabic, Nuri Publishing, Egypt, p.152 ( en:Image:Light behaviour through pinhole.jpg ).
Author Al-Hacen Ibn Al-Haitham

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A diagram depicting Ibn al-Haytham's observations of light's behaviour through a pinhole

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