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Bornc. 965 (c. 354 AH)
Basra, Buyid Emirate
Diedc. 1040 (c. 430 AH) (aged around 75)
Cairo, Fatimid Caliphate
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
CreedAsh'ari
Known forBook of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, Alhazen's problem, analysis, Catoptrics, horopter, intromission theory of visual perception, moon illusion, experimental science, scientific methodology, theory of perception, animal
Muslim leader
Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one's eyes. He was also the first to demonstrate that vision occurs in the brain, rather than in the eyes. Building upon a naturalistic, empirical method pioneered by Aristotle in ancient Greece, Ibn al-Haytham was an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence—an early pioneer in the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.
Born in Basra, he spent most of his productive period in the Fatimid capital of Cairo and earned his living authoring various treatises and tutoring members of the nobilities. Ibn al-Haytham is sometimes given the byname al-Baṣrī after his birthplace, or al-Miṣrī ("of Egypt"). Al-Haytham was dubbed the "Second Ptolemy" by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi and "The Physicist" by John Peckham.Ibn al-Haytham paved the way for the modern science of physical optics.
Contents
Biography
Book of Optics
Theory of optics
Scientific method
Alhazen's problem
Other contributions
Other works on physics
Optical treatises
Celestial physics
Mechanics
Astronomical works
On the Configuration of the World
Doubts Concerning Ptolemy
Model of the Motions of Each of the Seven Planets
Other astronomical works
Mathematical works
Geometry
Number theory
Calculus
Other works
Influence of Melodies on the Souls of Animals
Engineering
Philosophy
Theology
Legacy
Commemorations
List of works
Lost works
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
Primary
Secondary
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