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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.
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
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 ...
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 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 Middle East, Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, Latinized as Alhazen (c. 965 – c. 1040 AD) derived a formula for the sum of fourth powers. He used the results to carry out what would now be called an integration , where the formulas for the sums of integral squares and fourth powers allowed him to calculate the volume of a paraboloid . [ 11 ]
His legacy was elaborated through the 'reforming' of his Optics by Kamal al-Din al-Farisi (d. c. 1320) in the latter's Kitab Tanqih al-Manazir (The Revision of [Ibn al-Haytham's] Optics). [31] [32] Alhazen viewed his scientific studies as a search for truth: "Truth is sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for ...
Al-Haytham ibn Ubayd al-Kilabi, [a] also called al-Kinani [1] (Arabic: الهيثم بن عبيد الكناني, romanized: al-Haytham ibn ʿUbayd al-Kilābī), was the tenth governor of al-Andalus under the Umayyad Caliphate in AD 729–730 (AH 111). [3] He was one of a series of Arabs from Ifriqiya who served as governors in al-Andalus from ...