Ibn Rushd is best known for recognizing the function of the retina of the eye, but his fame rests chiefly on his work as a commentator on Aristotle. His praise of Aristotle is almost embarrassing to read: [Aristotle] founded and completed logic, physics, and metaphysics. I say that he founded them because the works written before him on these sciences are not worth talking about and are quite eclipsed by his own writings. And I say that he completed them because no one who has come after him up to our own time, that is, for nearly fifteen hundred years, has been able to add anything to his
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