Ibn al Haytham · Science
Ibn al-Haytham turned his skepticism on the greatest authority in astronomy, exposing that Ptolemy’s celestial machine could not physically exist.
You learned that Ibn al-Haytham attacked Ptolemy’s astronomy not on its predictions but on its physical reality. Explain the difference between those two tests, in your own words.
Leads to Nicolaus Copernicus.
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