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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 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).
Medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, often known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965– c. 1040 AD). Pages in category "Ibn al-Haytham" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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 ...
At a scientific conference in February 2007, Falco argued that the Arabic physicist Ibn al-Haytham's (965–1040) work on optics, in his Book of Optics, may have influenced the use of optical aids by Renaissance artists. Falco said that his and Hockney's examples of Renaissance art "demonstrate a continuum in the use of optics by artists from c ...
Haytham, Haitham or Haitem (Arabic: هيثم) male given name meaning "hawk". It is highly popular among Middle Eastern communities. Notable people with this name include: Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040), Mesopotamian Muslim polymath; Haytham I, Shirvanshah (r. 861-?) Haytham II, Shirvanshah; Haitham Ahmed Zaki (born 1984), Egyptian actor
A diagram depicting Ibn al-Haytham's observations of light's behaviour through a pinhole Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039), an Arab physicist also known as Alhazen, described the camera obscura effect. Over the centuries others started to experiment with it, mainly in dark rooms with a small opening in shutters, mostly to study the nature of light ...
His full name is given as Qays ibn al-Haytham ibn Qays ibn al-Salt ibn Habib [2] or Qays ibn al-Haytham ibn Asma ibn al-Salt. [3] The 8th-century historian Sayf ibn Umar names Qays's brother Amr as a participant in the Muslim conquest of Iraq in 634, but this was deemed implausible by the historian Khalid Yahya Blankinship. [2]