Ibn al-Haytham
ابن الهيثم
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
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Details
- Era
- medieval
- Category
- scholar
- Birth Place
- Basra
- Death Place
- Cairo