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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

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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

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