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How to process learning that optics was invented by someone your textbooks ignored

My physics professor mentioned that cameras work because of Ibn al-Haytham's research and I realized I've never heard a single Arab name in any science class.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The accumulation of educational omissions creates a sudden reckoning with the scope of what has been hidden.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Islamic and Arab contributions to science and technology — historical?”

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