Another well documented example of empiricism triumphing over discourse may be found
at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m1/powers.html
Better yet, the topic is within the psychological domain: how does vision work? In
short, it is the story of the Arab scientist Al-Hazen who solved the problem of
whether or not light was projected from the eyes out onto the world or if the eye
received light from the world itself.
This article is part of a series by the NYTimes on "The Best of the Millennium" that
is really interesting.
Kim Ainsworth-Darnell
GSU Psychology
