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Alhacen

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Noun1.Alhacen - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th centuryAlhacen - 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)


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9781606189818 Alhacen on image-formation and distortion in mirrors; a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of book 6 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus; 2v.
0871699621 Alhacen on the principles of reflection; a critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of books 4 and 5 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus; 2v.
 
 
 
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