The medieval lab you didn’t expect
In Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, Islamic study of Aristotelianism flourished until the Mongol invasions. Ibn al‑Haytham used controlled experiments in optics.House of Wisdom: Experiments and the Canon
Testing light, line by line
Experiment replaced speculation to probe how light travels and forms images. Avicenna compiled the Canon of Medicine.House of Wisdom: Experiments and the Canon
