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    Ibn al-Haytham (redirect from Ibn Alhazen)
    Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; /ælˈhæzən/; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 –...
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    Alhazen's problem, also known as Alhazen's billiard problem, is a mathematical problem in geometrical optics first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD. It...
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    Alhazen is a lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon's near side. Just to the south-southeast is the crater Hansen, and to the...
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  • Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) was an 11th-century Arab mathematician and astronomer. "Alhazen" may also refer to: Alhazen (crater), a lunar crater 59239 Alhazen...
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    one above, the Arab mathematician Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized name Alhazen, c. 965 – c. 1040) showed that where two lunes are formed, on the two sides...
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  • The understanding of the principles of dioptrics was further expanded by Alhazen, considered the father of modern optics. Diopter/Dioptre (unit of measurement)...
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    ruler-and-compass construction for the general solution of the ancient Alhazen's problem (billiard problem or reflection from a spherical mirror). Some...
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    composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965–c. 1040 AD). The Book of Optics presented experimentally...
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  • found throughout history, for instance with the ancient Stoics, Epicurus, Alhazen, Avicenna, Al-Biruni, Roger Bacon, and William of Ockham. In the scientific...
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    behavior was first described by Hero of Alexandria (AD c. 10–70). Later, Alhazen gave a complete statement of the law of reflection. He was first to state...
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    with the Aristotelian view that light had no speed of travel. In 1021, Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) published the Book of Optics, in which he presented a...
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    Brain-Based Teaching. W.W. Norton & Company. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-393-70607-9. Alhazen (or Al-Haytham; 965–1039 CE) was perhaps one of the greatest physicists...
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    methodology emphasising experimentation, such as the work of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century. The modern scientific worldview and the bulk of physics...
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    Hevelius's Selenographia, showing Alhazen [sic] representing reason, and Galileo representing the senses....
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    S2CID 23948158. Sabra, A.I. (1987). "Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion". In Grant, E.; Murdoch, J.E. (eds.). Mathematics...
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  • (936–1013) (Abulcasis), pioneer of neurosurgery Ibn al-Haytham (965–1040) (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and...
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