Who was first to describe how the human eye works?

Answer 1

He was the arab scientist (Elhassan Ebn Elhaytham)

Before that, poeple was supposing that the eye is a lighting box that see the things by light in it, they were also supposing that the light has no velocity & moving in the NOW

Then this famous scientist came & prove that the light has a velocity (but ofcourse he didn't find it) & it is reflected to the eye so we can see (his reason was: becouse if the eye was a lighting box, so we can see in dark) but we can't see in dark so the light must be came from a place (reflection) to our eyes to make us see

To know more about that scientist, search his name on Google or Yahoo

i hope u got ur point from my explanation

Answer 2

Thomas young