Ibn al-Haytham

ابن الهيثم

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Born: 965 CE (354 AH)Died: 1040 CE (430 AH)

Biography

Full biography coming soon. Arab Muslim physicist and mathematician known as Alhazen in the West. His Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) revolutionized the understanding of vision and light, and pioneered the modern scientific method.

Books

Books authored by or about Ibn al-Haytham will be linked here.

Details

Era
medieval
Category
scholar
Birth Place
Basra
Death Place
Cairo