Ibn al-Haytham's "Book of Optics" is a foundational work in physics, detailing experiments and theories on light and vision. It significantly advanced the understanding of optics and the scientific method, influencing later European scholars.
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- Albert Einstein — Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
- Albert Einstein — Time, Space, and Gravitation (1919)
- Lord Rayleigh — The Theory of Sound (1877)
- Isaac Newton — Opticks (1704)
- Lucretius — On the Nature of Things (c. 50 BCE)
- Marie Curie — Radioactive Substances (1903)
- Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light (1690)
- Michael Faraday — Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839)
- James Clerk Maxwell — A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
- Heinrich Hertz — Electric Waves (1893)
- Ernst Mach — The Science of Mechanics (1883)
- Wilhelm Röntgen — Röntgen Rays (1899)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)