Which optical outcome improved celestial navigation due to Ibn Sahl's lens research in 10th century Baghdad?

💡 Explanation

When Ibn Sahl documented the law of refraction, understanding specific lens geometries could be engineered because the behavior of light passing through different materials became predictable, minimizing spherical aberration is possible when designing lenses. Therefore minimized spherical aberration resulted, rather than reduced chromatic aberration, which requires knowledge of dispersion, or enhanced magnification requiring advanced fabrication techniques.

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