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CERAMICS viii. The Early Bronze Age in Southwestern and Southern Persia
The ceramic repertoire of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. in Ḵūzestān is dominated by plain buff-ware forms, the development of which can be traced through approximately 1,000 years, with four major subdivisions. The most common and long-lived forms are illustrated in this article.
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FĀRESĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD
(d. 1320), the most significant figure in optics after Ebn al-Hayṯam (Alhazen; 965-1040). The two names have been linked due to his critical revision of Ebn al-Hayṯam’s Ketāb al-manāẓer, which represents a watershed in the scientific understanding of light and vision.