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Ibn al-Haytham is sometimes given the byname al-Baṣrī after his birthplace, [25] or al-Miṣrī ("the Egyptian"). [26] [27] Al-Haytham was dubbed the "Second Ptolemy" by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi [28] and "The Physicist" by John Peckham. [29] Ibn al-Haytham paved the way for the modern science of physical optics. [30]
Nur al-Din `Ali ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Hasan al-Haythami (Arabic: نور الدين الهيثمي, commonly known as Nur al-Din al-Haythami [2] was a famous Sunni Egyptian scholar and an eminent Hadith expert who wrote lengthy works on hadith sciences.
Abu Nasr Mansur (d. 1036) Abu l-Hasan 'Ali (d. 1037) Ibn Sina (d. 1037) Ibn al-Haytham (d. 1040) Al-Bīrūnī (d. 1048) Ali ibn Ridwan (d. 1061) Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (d. 1087) Omar Khayyám (d. 1131) Ibn Bajjah (d. 1138) Ibn Tufail (d. 1185) Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) Al-Khazini (d. 12th century) Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (d. 1204) Sharaf al ...
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).
Abu 'Ali Hasan ibn Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Makula (Persian: ابو علی حسن بن علی بن جعفر بن ماکولا), better known simply as Abu Ali Hasan, was a Persian statesman from the Makula family, who served as the vizier of Jalal al-Dawla from 1026 to 1031. Abu Ali Hasan was born in 976/977. In 1026, he succeeded his cousin Abu Sa'd ...
877), al-Baladhuri, al-Haytham ibn Adi (d. 822), and Abu Bakr ibn Hafs. [116] These reports are nevertheless suppressed by al-Tabari, perhaps because he found them insignificant or far more likely because he was concerned for the faith of the common people (awamm) in this and similar instances, as suggested by Madelung and Donaldson (d. 1976).
Which point on the surface of the spherical mirror can reflect a ray of light from the candle to the observer's eye?. Alhazen's problem, also known as Alhazen's billiard problem, is a mathematical problem in geometrical optics first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD. [1]
Ali ibn Abi Talib (600–661), the fourth caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate; Ali ibn Musa (766–818), the eight imam in Ithna Ashariyya; Abu Al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman (1297–1351), a Marinid-dynasty sultan of Morocco and Al-Andalus