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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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    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...
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    Proclus, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), Omar Khayyám, Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Witelo, Gersonides, Alfonso, and later Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, John Wallis...
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  • Difficilium, also known as De Intelligentiis. This was originally attributed to Witelo. It was published as Adam's in 1908 but in the 1930s the question of this...
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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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  • the mathematician John Campanus, the Silesian naturalist and physician Witelo, and the astronomer Henri Bate of Mechlin, who dedicated to William his...
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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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    apparent distance. Through additional works (by Roger Bacon, John Pecham, Witelo, and others) based on Ibn al-Haytham's explanation, the Moon illusion came...
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  • Edda written in Codex Regius, including Hávamál and Völwpá c. 1270–1278 – Witelo – Perspectiva 1274 Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla – Ginnat Egoz (Garden of...
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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...
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