Where these words come from
- 40% sureLots of sources credit Ibn al-Haytham with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Ibn al-Haytham's authorship is carried by two independent scholarly relays, but the TRANSLATION relay is disputed: credited to A.I. Sabra (Doubts Concerning Ptolemy) by one source and to S. Pines in Sambursky's Physical Thought (1974) p.139 by another. Neither confirmed at page level
- Doubts Concerning Ptolemy
- c. 1028
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