Speed of the light Hello people, today our topic is the history of the speed of light from Aristotle to Albert Einstien lot of people derive the speed of light with some interesting experiments let us see them one by one in short List of the people who found the speed Aristotle Ibn al-Haytham Galileo Sir Isaac newton Romer Fizeau Foucault Albert.A.Michelson Aristotle The first reference of motion of light is found by him he is a greek philosopher he said it is 300BC. He says that light does not take time to travel from one place to another place. But now we prove it is a wrong statement Ibn al-Haytham He is the first man who does a systematic experiment to find the speed of light he lived in Egypt he is the father of modern optics. He uses Camera Obscura a pinhole camera that passes different light rays that travel outside of a camera to reach a specific point on the screen. His logic is to be taking finite time to travel a finite distance. The value is jus...
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