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Vitello (Polish: Witelon; German:
Witelo; c. 1230 – 1280/1314) was a
Polish friar, theologian,
natural philosopher and an
important figure in the history...
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arguments backed by the
writing of
Alhazen and Aristotle. In the 1270s,
Witelo considered the
possibility of
light travelling at
infinite speed in vacuum...
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property of the
luminous body,
rejecting the "forms" of Ibn al-Haytham and
Witelo as well as the "species" of
Roger Bacon,
Robert Grosseteste and Johannes...
- paralipomena,
quibus astronomiae pars
opticae traditur (Supplements to
Witelo, in
which the
optical part of
astronomy is treated) as
cited in Smith, A...
- Proclus, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), Omar Khayyám, Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī,
Witelo, Gersonides, Alfonso, and
later Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, John Wallis...
- S2CID 145493641. Gedzelman,
Stanley David (1989). "Did Kepler's
Supplement to
Witelo Inspire Descartes'
Theory of the Rainbow?".
Bulletin of the
American Meteorological...
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first European attempt to
prove the
postulate on
parallel lines—made by
Witelo, the
Polish scientists of the 13th century,
while revising Ibn al-Haytham's...
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influence on its
development among later European geometers,
including Witelo, Levi ben Gerson, Alfonso, John
Wallis and Saccheri. All of
these early...
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influential in Europe.
Among those Ibn al-Haytham is
thought to have
inspired are
Witelo, John Peckham,
Roger Bacon,
Leonardo da Vinci, René
Descartes and Johannes...
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around 1200 A.D. and
further summarised and
expanded on by the
Polish monk
Witelo making it a
standard text on
optics in
Europe for the next 400 years. In...
