Toomer 1964 lists, as a precondition, what is needed for historians to investigate Schramm's claim(1963) that Ibn al-Haytham was the true
founder of modern physics, is translations of Ibn al-Haytham.
Wilbur Schramm, a sociologist researching the relationship between news and national development, said,‘Change will not take place unless those who
are expected to change know and accept the reasons, the methods, and the rewards for changing.'.
Toomer expressed some skepticism regarding Schramm's view, arguing that caution is needed
to avoid reading anachronistically particular passages in Alhazen's very large body of work, because at the time(1964), his Book of Optics had not yet been fully translated from Arabic.
According to Matthias Schramm, Alhazen"was the first to make a systematic use
of the method of varying the experimental conditions in a constant and uniform manner, in an experiment showing that the intensity of the light-spot formed by the projection of the moonlight through two small apertures onto a screen diminishes constantly as one of the apertures is gradually blocked up.