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Kamal al-Din al-Farisi
Commentator of Optics — 1267–1319 CE
A disciple of the Maragha school, in Tanqih al-Manazir he unified Ibn al-Haytham's book with Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's and completed their method. He gave the first complete physical explanation of the rainbow through reflection and refraction inside a water drop, proved it with a water-filled spherical flask experiment, and studied sunset colours.