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Ibn Al-Haytham and Psychophysics

Craig Aaen-Stockdale [email protected]View all authors and affiliations
Volume 37, Issue 4
https://doi.org/10.1068/p5940

Abstract

Persian scholar Ibn al-Haytham (‘Alhazen’) has rightly been credited with many advances in optics and vision science, but recent spurious claims that he is the ‘founder of psychophysics’ rest upon unsupported assertions, a conflation of psychophysics with the wider discipline of psychology, and semantic arguments over what it is to ‘found’ a school of thought.

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Volume 37, Issue 4
Pages: 636 - 638
Article first published online: January 1, 2008
Issue published: April 2008

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Craig Aaen-Stockdale
McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, Québec H3A 1A1, Canada
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