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Mansoura University was founded in 1972 in Mansoura city, Egypt. It is in the middle of the Nile Delta . It is one of the biggest Egyptian universities and has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt.
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; / æ l ˈ h æ z ən /; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 – c. 1040) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
The Latin translation of Alhazen's (Ibn al-Haytham) main work, Book of Optics (Kitab al-Manazir), [6] exerted a great influence on Western science: for example, on the work of Roger Bacon, who cites him by name. [7] His research in catoptrics (the study of optical systems using mirrors) centred on spherical and parabolic mirrors and spherical ...
Ibn al-Haytham (965–1040) (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and visual perception [13] Al-Biruni (973–1050), pioneer of reaction time [ 14 ] Avicenna (980–1037) (Ibn Sīnā), pioneer of neuropsychiatry , [ 15 ] thought experiment , self-awareness and self-consciousness [ 16 ]
It is named for the 11th-century Arab mathematician Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) who presented a geometric solution in his Book of Optics. The algebraic solution involves quartic equations and was found in 1965 by Jack M. Elkin .
Ibn al-Haytham employed scientific skepticism, emphasizing the role of empiricism and explaining the role of induction in syllogism. He went so far as to criticize Aristotle for his lack of contribution to the method of induction, which Ibn al-Haytham regarded as being not only superior to syllogism but the basic requirement for true scientific ...
The Book of Optics (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, romanized: Kitāb al-Manāẓir; Latin: De Aspectibus or Perspectiva; Italian: Deli Aspecti) is a seven-volume treatise on optics and other fields of study composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965–c. 1040 AD).
In the eleventh century, Ibn al-Haytham not only rejected the Greek idea about vision, he came up with a new theory. [ 8 ] Ibn Sahl (c. 940–1000), a mathematician and physicist connected with the court of Baghdad , wrote a treatise On Burning Mirrors and Lenses in 984 in which he set out his understanding of how curved mirrors and lenses bend ...