History of Light

Question 1

What were some ancient greek people who contributed to the history of light?

Answer 1

Pythagoras, Euclid Ptolemy

Question 2

How did Pythagoras contribute to the history?

Answer 2

Though beams of light come from our eyes and sense things. (False)

Question 3

How did Euclid contribute to the history?

Answer 3

Observed that when light reflects off a mirror, the angle of the incoming beam is equal to that of the outgoing beam. (True)

Question 4

What did Ptolemy do?

Answer 4

Said that light bends when it travels from air to glass.

Question 5

What did Al Haytham do?

Answer 5

Found out that light reflects off objects and travels to our eye in the middle ages, true.

Question 6

What did Isaac Newton do?

Answer 6

Shone light through a prism and found that white light is a mixture of different colors in the 1600s, true

Question 7

What did ole romer do?

Answer 7

First measured the speed of light in the 1600s

Question 8

What did Albert A.Michelson do?

Answer 8

More accurately determined the speed of light to be about 300,000/s. Timed a beam of light from a mirror on one mountain to another in the 1920s