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Sat 01-10-2011 
| On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: The Forgotten Contributions of Medieval Physicists |
| We learn at school that Newton is the father of modern optics, Copernicus heralded the birth of astronomy, and Snell deduced the law of refraction. But what debt do these men owe to the physicists and astronomers of the medieval Islamic Empire?
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