Question

Who invented optics?

Answer 1

1. Optics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of light and instruments used to measure the properties of light and detect light.
2. The subject of optics has been studied since the early days of Egyptians and Mesopotamians.
3. Theories have been developed by philosophers from ancient Greece, where geometrical optics was developed.
4. Optics has since been studied and developed by various physicists and scientists across the globe in different eras.
5. Ibn al-Haytham was an important contributor to this topic and was the author of the ‘Book of Optics’. He was known as “the father of modern optics.”