Alhazen ibn al-haytham biography for kids
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Quick facts for kids Alhazen | |
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| ابن الهيثم | |
| Born | c.
() (c. AH) Basra, Buyid Emirate |
| Died | c. () (c. AH) (aged around 75) Cairo, Fatimid Caliphate |
| Known for | Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, Alhazen's problem, analysis, Catoptrics, horopter, intromission theory of visual perception, moon illusion, experimental science, scientific methodology, animal psychology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physics, mathematics, astronomy |
| Influences | Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Galen, Banū Mūsā, Thābit ibn Qurra, Al-Kindi, Ibn Sahl, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī |
| Influenced | Omar Khayyam, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Averroes, Al-Khazini, John Peckham, Vitello, Roger Bacon, Johannes Kepler |
Alhazen or Alhacen or ibn al-Haytham (–) (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) was a pioneer of modern optics.
Some have also described him as a "pioneer of the modern scientific method" and "