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Physics, mathematics, astronomy. Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham ( Latinized as Alhazen; / ælˈhæzən /; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haythamأبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c.965 – c. 1040) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
Ibn al-Haytham’s greatest work, “Optics,” appears to have been neglected in the East until the commentary on it by the mathematician Kamāl al-Dīn Abuʾl Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī (d. 1320). A Latin translation of it—sometimes literal and sometimes interpretative—was made by an unknown scholar, probably early in ...
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The Universe through a pinhole. Ibn al-Haytham was born in 965 CE in the city of Basra (in present-day Iraq). This part of the world was a center of science and learning at the time. In Basra, Ibn al-Haytham became famous for his mathematical ability. But the young man was perhaps too confident.
Life. Ab_ ‘Al_ al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham was born in the Arab city of Basra, Iraq ( Mesopotamia ), then part of the Buyid dynasty of Persia, and he probably died in Cairo, Egypt. [2] Known in the West as Alhacen or Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham was born in 965 in Basra, and was educated there and in Baghdad .
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Ibn al-Haytham was born in the year 965 in Basra, and died in about 1040 in Cairo. He was one of the earliest scientists to study the characteristics of light and the mechanism/process of vision. He sought experimental proof of his theories and ideas. During many years living in Egypt, ten of which were spent under what we may now call ...
The Arab Muslim scholar Abu Ali al Hasan ibn al-Haytham, known in the west as Alhacen or Alhazen was born in 965 in the city of Basra in Southern Iraq, hence he is also known as Al-Basri. 1 He was educated in Basra and Baghdad, and died in Cairo, Egypt in the year 1040. 2. Many details of the life of Ibn al-Haytham have been lost over time.
Ibn al-Haytham returned with his engineering team and reported to al-Hakim that they could not achieve their aim. Al-Hakim, disappointed with ibn al-Haytham's scientific abilities, appointed him to an administrative post. At first ibn al-Haytham accepted this but soon realised that al-Hakim was a dangerous man whom he could not trust.
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