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Ibn al-Haytham
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. – c. )
"Alhazen" and "Alhaitham" redirect here. For other uses, see Alhazen (disambiguation). For the fictional character, see List of Genshin Impact characters §&#;Alhaitham.
Alhazen | |
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| Born | c. &#;() (c.&#; AH)[1] Basra, Buyid Emirate |
| Died | c. &#;() (c.&#; AH)[1] (aged around 75) Cairo, Fatimid Caliphate |
| Known&#;for | Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, Alhazen's problem, analysis,[2]Catoptrics,[3]horopter, Spherical aberration, intromission theory of visual perception, moon illusion, experimental science, scientific methodology,[4]animal psychology[5] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, mathematics, astronomy |
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; ; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haythamأبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c.&#;&#;– c.&#;) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.[6][7][8][9] Referred to as "the father of modern optics",[10][11][12] he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual percep
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Alhazen: Master stand for Optics
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Eminent Scholars on Ibn Al-Haytham
What modern Scientists and Historians say about Ibn al-Haytham:
The late Abdelhamid Sabra, Professor Emeritus of the History of Arabic Science, Harvard University, and an authority on Ibn al-Haytham, said the following about Ibn Al-Haytham in The Harvard Magazine, September-October
“Relatively late in his life, apparently stimulated by controversies with contemporaries about truth and authority and the role of criticism in scientific research, Ibn al-Haytham articulated some remarkably sophisticated statements on the practice of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. In a critical treatise, Aporias (doubts) against Ptolemy, he asserts that &#;Truth is sought for itself&#;—but &#;the truths,&#; he warns, &#;are immersed in uncertainties&#; and the scientific authorities (such as Ptolemy, whom he greatly respected) are &#;not immune from error….&#; Nor, he said, is human nature itself: &#;Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nat