Ibn al-Haytham

On occasion of the millennial celebration of the "Book of Optics" by Ibn al-Haytham, one of the most influential books in physics, science writer Jennifer Ouellette has written a fictionalized account of al-Haytham's epiphany in 11th-century Egypt.

Medievel scholar's epiphany about light is focus of short story set in Egypt Post 2011

The oldest drawing of the nervous system is traced to Cairo circa 1027, when Ibn al-Haytham sketched a nose and two eyes and ran hollow nerves from the latter to the brain.

The human brain unravelled Ian Sample 2010

The first pinhole camera (sans film) was invented in the 10th century by Ibn al-Haytham, the Arab physicist, astronomer, and mathematician.

Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009

Thus, Ibn al-Haytham held that size is perceived by combining the visual angle that a body subtends with perception of its distance, to arrive at a perception of the true size of the object.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

However, Descartes used his mechanistic physiology to frame a new account of how distance might be perceived, a theory different from anything that could have been found in Ibn al-Haytham.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

During the Middle Ages, the Arabic natural philosopher Ibn al-Haytham produced an important new theoretical work in which he offered an extensive account of the perception of spatial properties.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

Moreover, the Arab scientists were not only practicing the scientific method in their studies on optics, chemistry and astronomy, but in the early eleventh century, Ibn al-Haytham, known to the West as Alhazen, had offered a clear theoretical formulation of the scientific method.

CounterPunch 2010

At about this time, we also witness the birth of industrial chemistry, with remarkably sophisticated scientific methods being employed over the haphazard practice of alchemy, and advances in fields such as optics by the likes of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) that would not be matched until Newton.

physicsworld.com: all content 2010

Moreover, the Arab scientists were not only practicing the scientific method in their studies on optics, chemistry and astronomy, but in the early eleventh century, Ibn al-Haytham, known to the West as Alhazen, had offered a clear theoretical formulation of the scientific method.

CounterPunch 2010

Moreover, the Arab scientists were not only practicing the scientific method in their studies on optics, chemistry and astronomy, but in the early eleventh century, Ibn al-Haytham, known to the West as Alhazen, had offered a clear theoretical formulation of the scientific method.

CounterPunch 2010