Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
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Persian mathematician
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Why Is Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi or Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan According to Encyclopædia Iranica, Kamal al-Din was the most prominent Persian author on optics. Optics His work on optics was prompted by a question put to him concerning the refraction of light. Shirazi advised him to consult the Book of Optics of Ibn al-Haytham , and Farisi made such a deep study of this treatise that Shirazi suggested that he write what is essentially a revision of that major work, which came to be called the Tanqih. Qutb al-Din Al-Shirazi himself was writing a commentary on works of Avicenna at the time.
