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Ibn Al - Haythem
Assume you are looking at a car moving away from you, and then you
would see as if the car is shrinking in size
Not as if the car has shrunk in size but as if the car image shrunk indicating
a different location of the car and not as a different size of the car
Our eyes do not see the car but our eyes see images of the car that
look different at different distances. Meaning if you see a car at a
distance A, then how the car would look like at a distance B?
This visual effect was discussed by ancient Arab physicists as follows:
A B
Arabs in the 10th century: O
r0
ωt
rx
With r x = r 0 cosine ω t
And ω t = cosine-1 (r x / r 0)
Then ∆ r = r x - r 0
= r 0 [(cosine ω t) – 1]
And (r x - r 0)/ r 0 = [(1 - 2 sine² ω t/2) – 1]
= - 2 sine ² ω t/2; ω t = cosine-1 (r x / r 0)
Or [- 2sine ² ω t/2] θ' 0; ω t = cosine-1 (r x / r 0)
Earth
Mercury
Mercury
B A
Sun
Earth
Mercury
Mercury
A
B
43
θ
70.75
Sun
With