Once the artists were chosen, he explains, “we all worked together on the paradigms in the Book of Optics by Ibn Al Haytham [Alhazen], which is a very advanced take on visual imagination that ...

Once the artists were chosen, he explains, “we all worked together on the paradigms in the Book of Optics by Ibn Al Haytham [Alhazen], which is a very advanced take on visual imagination that ...

ALHAZEN: Hi guys, for those who are new to my channel, I am Alhazen, also known as the father of modern optics. I'm an Arabic scientist living in Egypt. Not to show off, but it is actually due to ...

Abū Ali al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī (965-1040), known in European Middle Ages by the name of Alhazen, was called among Arab scholars as ‘Second Ptolemy’ (Baṭlamyūs Thānī). He was actually a ...

Yet few of us know of Alhazen, who wrote one of history’s most influential works on the subject, the seven-volume Book of Optics. No surprise: We’re mostly clueless about science before the ...

The Apollo 11 Mission and Galileo’s observations, whose respective 40th and 400th anniversaries we are celebrating this year, confirmed discoveries with the naked eye almost a millennium ago by the ...

Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn Al-Haytham was born in 965 CE in Basrah, and was educated in Basrah and Baghdad. Thereafter, he went to Egypt, where he was asked to find ways of controlling the ...