PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Merriam-Webster, Frontal Lobe, Ageplay
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Alhazen was one of the most influential scientists of the 10th-11th century, making contributions to science that were way beyond their time. He was born in 965 in basra, iraq and died in cairo, egypt in 1040. His most famous work, book of optics, was translated into. Latin and disseminated throughout europe in the middle ages. This work influenced many great thinkers, including roger bacon, who wrote a summary of it. In this book, alhazen correctly identified that eyesight is caused by light entering the eye, contradicting an earlier belief espoused by euclid and ptolemy that light is emitted from the eye. Yes the establishment of wilhelm wundt"s (1832-1920) first psychological laboratory in. The process of trepanation involved creating holes in a person"s skull to release pressure from the brain using a trypanon, which was a drill turned by a hand or string. The edwin smith papyrus was of extreme importance as it introduced the concept of the.