2008/01/01 by Craig Aaen‐Stockdale · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #History of Science and Medicine #Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
paper · doi:10.1068/p5940
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
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.