Which optical effect allowed Alhazen to more accurately model human vision and astronomy?

💡 Explanation

Using a camera obscura, Alhazen demonstrated light traveling in straight lines and projecting images, because light passes through a small hole and focuses an inverted image onto a surface. Therefore camera obscura's pinhole projection results rather than diffraction modification, spherical error, or chromatic dispersion, which involve alternative propagation principles.

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