al-Haytham

There are many other great men whose contributions are forgotten in the west, such as Iraqi genius Ibn al-Haytham, the greatest physicist in the 2,000-year span between Archimedes and Newton, al-Bīrūni, the Persian polymath regarded as the Da Vinci of Islam, al-Tūsi, a mathematician and astronomer who would influence Copernicus, and Ibn Khaldūn, the acknowledged father of social science and economic theory.

When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world Jim al-Khalili 2010

The short story "The Scholar and the Caliph" covers the 10 years when al-Haytham, under house arrest, came up with his revolutionary theories about the form and passage of light.

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

If your readers would like to know more about him, I would like to recommend my new book, Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist.

Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008

The abilities to capture light and display a moment of time has come a long way since the camera obscura was discovered by Ibn al-Haytham around 1000 CE.

Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008

One thousand years after al-Haytham sketched the neural wiring for eyesight, the brain is rendered in rich colour as 3D computer images that can be rotated, flipped and peered inside.

The human brain unravelled Ian Sample 2010

I enjoyed your reference to Ibn al-Haytham in your essay.

Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008

The abilities to capture light and display a moment of time has come a long way since the camera obscura was discovered by Ibn al-Haytham around 1000 CE.

Archive 2008-03-01 Code Monkey 2008

As the first person to systematically test hypotheses with experiments, Ibn al-Haytham deserves recognition not only as the “father of optics” but also as the first scientist.

Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008

Or Ibn al-Haytham, the 11th-century physicist from Cairo who made pioneering advances in optics.

The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009

And in comments I listed Muslim polymath Ibn al-Haytham 965-1039 as one of the top five, in his case for inventing the scientific method.

It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin 2008