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  "ar": "تصنيف «كتاب المناظر»",
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  "ar": "صنّف ابن الهيثم بالقاهرة «كتاب المناظر» في علم البصريات، أعظم كتبه، بُني على التجربة لا على القياس وحده فغيّر علم البصر إلى القرن السابع عشر {cite:britannica-ibn-al-haytham}.",
  "en": "In Cairo Ibn al-Haytham composed the Book of Optics, his greatest work — built on experiment rather than conjecture, and it remade the science of vision into the seventeenth century {cite:britannica-ibn-al-haytham}.",
  "ur": "قاہرہ میں ابن ہیشم نے بصریات پر «کتاب المناظر» لکھی — تجربے پر مبنی اس کا اہم ترین کام جس نے بصریات کی صنعت سترہویں صدی تک بدل دی {cite:britannica-ibn-al-haytham}."
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   "source": "written for the Timeline Explorer Ibn al-Haytham story from the cited source",
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