Alhazen | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham


00:01:44 1 Biography
00:03:40 2 iBook of Optics/i
00:05:03 2.1 Theory of optics
00:12:27 2.2 Scientific method
00:15:24 2.3 Alhazen's problem
00:18:15 2.4 Other contributions
00:21:44 3 Other works on physics
00:21:54 3.1 Optical treatises
00:22:31 3.2 Celestial physics
00:23:33 3.3 Mechanics
00:24:02 4 Astronomical works
00:24:12 4.1 iOn the Configuration of the World/i
00:25:01 4.2 iDoubts Concerning Ptolemy/i
00:27:44 4.3 iModel of the Motions of Each of the Seven Planets/i
00:28:58 4.4 Other astronomical works
00:29:41 5 Mathematical works
00:30:09 5.1 Geometry
00:31:06 5.2 Number theory
00:31:59 5.3 Calculus
00:32:26 6 Other works
00:32:35 6.1 iInfluence of Melodies on the Souls of Animals/i
00:33:03 6.2 Engineering
00:33:44 6.3 Philosophy
00:34:50 6.4 Theology
00:36:58 7 Legacy
00:40:01 8 Commemorations
00:42:13 9 Criticism
00:42:22 9.1 Refraction
00:42:45 10 List of works
00:46:19 10.1 Lost works
00:46:46 11 See also
00:47:26 12 Notes
00:47:35 13 Sources
00:47:43 14 Further reading
00:47:52 14.1 Primary
00:52:36 14.2 Secondary
00:56:06 15 External links



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Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized Alhazen ; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 – c. 1040) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age.  Sometimes called "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular, his most influential work being his Kitāb al-Manāẓir (كتاب المناظر, "Book of Optics"), written during 1011–1021, which survived in the Latin edition. A polymath, he also wrote on philosophy, theology and medicine.Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes. And he was the first to point out that vision occurs in the brain, rather than in the eyes. He was also an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be proved by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence—hence understanding 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"). Ibn al-Haytham was nicknamed the "Second Ptolemy" by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi, and the "The Physicist" by John Peckham. Ibn al-Haytham paved the way for the modern science of physical optics.