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Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham

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Noun1.Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th centuryAl-Hasan ibn al-Haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)
al-Haytham, Alhacen, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham
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Islamic inventions Another inventor is the tenth century optician and physicist Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, simply known as al-Haytham, who invented the pinhole camera and discovered how the eye works.
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Europe would never have emerged from the tyranny and obscurantism of the Catholic Church if Arabs like Ibn Rushd and Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham had not preserved and passed on the knowledge contained in classical Greek texts.
The dark age of Isramerican tyranny by The Star (Amman, Jordan)
 
 
 
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