Ibn al-Haytham
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; ; full name ; ) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular. His most influential work is titled ''Kitāb al-Manāẓir'' (Arabic: , "Book of Optics"), written during 1011–1021, which survived in a Latin edition. The works of Alhazen were frequently cited during the scientific revolution by Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Christiaan Huygens, and Galileo Galilei.Ibn al-Haytham was the first to correctly explain the theory of vision, and to argue that vision occurs in the brain, pointing to observations that it is subjective and affected by personal experience. He also stated the principle of least time for refraction which would later become Fermat's principle. He made major contributions to catoptrics and dioptrics by studying reflection, refraction and nature of images formed by light rays. Ibn al-Haytham was an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical reasoning—an early pioneer in the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists, he is sometimes described as the world's "first true scientist". He was also a polymath, writing on philosophy, theology and medicine.
Born in Basra, he spent most of his productive period in the Fatimid capital of Cairo and earned his living authoring various treatises and tutoring members of the nobilities. Ibn al-Haytham is sometimes given the byname ''al-Baṣrī'' after his birthplace, or ''al-Miṣrī'' ("the Egyptian"). Al-Haytham was dubbed the "Second Ptolemy" by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi and "The Physicist" by John Peckham. Ibn al-Haytham paved the way for the modern science of physical optics. Provided by Wikipedia
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al-Shukūk ʻalá Baṭlamyūs. by Alhazen, 965-1039
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The optics of Ibn al-Haytham : Books I-III : on direct vision by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Opticae thesaurus. : Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nuncprimum editi. Eiusdem liber De Crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X. by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Alhacen on image-formation and distortion in mirrors : a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of book 6 of Alhacen's De aspectibus by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Alhacen's theory of visual perception : a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of the first three books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the medieval Latin version... by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Ibn Al-Haytham's Completion of the conics by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Alhacen on refraction : a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of Book 7 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Alhacen on the principles of reflection : a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of books 4 and 5 of Alhacen's De aspectibus, [the medieval Latin version of I... by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Ibn al-Haytham's On the configuration of the world by Alhazen, 965-1039
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Kitāb tanqīḥ al-manāẓir li-dhawī al-abṣār wa-al-baṣāʼir by Fārisī, Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan, active 1300
al-Qāhirah : Al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1984Other Authors: “…Alhazen, 965-1039…”
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Ibn al-Haitham ; proceedings of the celebrations of 1000th anniversary held under the auspices of Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan
[Karachi?] : [Hamdard Academy], 1970Other Authors: “…Alhazen, 965-1039…”
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Ibn al-Haitham ; proceedings of the celebrations of 1000th anniversary held under the auspices of Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan
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Geometry and dioptrics in classical Islam by Rāshid, Rushdī
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Géométrie et dioptrique au Xe siècle : Ibn Sahl, al-Qūhī et Ibn al-Haytham
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