MissSavvy

Returning NQT☺️ Mum. Activist. ❤️Psychology. CBT. Lover of kindness, honesty and hard work. Ready to immerse into the world of Primary school teachers.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later.

I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it.

His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics."

The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages.

Here is the story almost nobody tells you.

He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it.

Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years.

Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science.

Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I

Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment."

That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance.

The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation.

He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes.

The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics.

The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught.

Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework.

Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham.

The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him.

He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇮🇱🇪🇬 Benjamin Netyanahu now has problems with Egypt

Benjamin Netanyahu during the security cabinet meeting:

'The Egyptian army is growing stronger, and we must monitor it closely and prevent its excessive strengthening.'

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

My take on the Iran protests, the brutal crackdown, US and Israeli involvement, and more.

It's time for us to be morally and politically consistent.

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

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[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@NiteshxGor Agreed. Logic is what our schemas tell us is logic. Trnscending what we know is not possible because we don't know HOW to transcend. We are bound by what we know as logic because our brains can't cope with anything else

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

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[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

The world would be such a better place if we had more leaders like Ireland's new president, Catherine Connolly.

She drew from Ireland's own experience of colonisation.
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[onjali rauf @OnjaliRauf]

A 9 year old kid is a 9 year old kid.

Except if he's born Over There.

Then it's totally fine for one of the footsoldiers of the most beloved army on the planet, to shoot him dead as he played football.

Because he never was a kid.

Who deserved to live.

Right?

As you were.

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@OnjaliRauf What a disgusting excuse for a human being. And more disgusting are those choosing to turn a blind eye

[onjali rauf @OnjaliRauf]

It's ok.

Some women arent really Women at all.

So They won't feel pain when being beaten by masked settlers with clubs and sticks.

Because some Women are more equal than Other Women.

So it's ok if all the women who are More Equal, stay silent and turn away.

As you were.

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@JenniferKillick Wallington County I mean, lol

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@JenniferKillick Wally boys!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The illegal attacks on Iran by the United States are reckless beyond belief — and threaten the safety of humankind around the world.

Diplomacy was possible. Instead, a catastrophic war has been ignited by the aggression of two nuclear states, Israel and the United States.

Meanwhile, the genocide in Gaza continues unabated with the shameful military support of our own government.

The last Labour government made the mistake of following the US into a devastating war. Human beings abroad paid the price.

This Labour government needs to learn the lessons of the past, otherwise it will be remembered for the more dangerous world it has helped to create.

I echo the call made by the UN Secretary-General: “There is no military solution. The only path forward is diplomacy. The only hope is peace.”

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@tes I agree. Taking play only makes children more agitated, more restless, in turn less likely to perform efficiently into the next lesson. Cut out some minutes yes, but don't take it away entirely.

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

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[SARA 𓂆 @saragaza94]

This man is a traitor.

Retweet if you agree

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

@SpeakerPelosi Ew what a vile woman you are

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

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[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇮🇱🤡 They CHEERED as their military slaughtered 30,000 GAZANS over the past 6 months.

🇮🇱😡 Now they SCREAM as IRAN serves them a micro-dose of their own medicine on military targets.

[MissSavvy @AMissSavvy]

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[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: US AND ITALY CALL G7 MEETING TO DISCUSS IRAN

Biden convened an emergency meeting of G7 leaders to:

“co-ordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack.”

Biden told Netanyahu:

“That Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks - sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

Italian government:

“The Italian presidency of the G7 has invited G7 leaders to a video conference meeting early this afternoon.”