- Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as
Alhazen; /ælˈhæzən/; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 –...
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Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) was an 11th-century Arab
mathematician and astronomer. "
Alhazen" may also
refer to:
Alhazen (crater), a
lunar crater 59239 Alhazen...
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Alhazen is a
lunar impact crater that lies near the
eastern limb of the Moon's near side. Just to the south-southeast is the
crater Hansen, and to the...
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Alhazen's problem, also
known as
Alhazen's billiard problem, is a
mathematical problem in
geometrical optics first formulated by
Ptolemy in 150 AD. It...
- one above, the Arab
mathematician Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized name
Alhazen, c. 965 – c. 1040)
showed that
where two
lunes are formed, on the two sides...
- The
understanding of the
principles of
dioptrics was
further expanded by
Alhazen,
considered the
father of
modern optics. Diopter/Dioptre (unit of measurement)...
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composed by the
medieval Arab
scholar Ibn al-Haytham,
known in the West as
Alhazen or
Alhacen (965–c. 1040 AD). The Book of
Optics presented experimentally...
- ruler-and-comp****
construction for the
general solution of the
ancient Alhazen's problem (billiard
problem or
reflection from a
spherical mirror). Some...
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behavior was
first described by Hero of
Alexandria (AD c. 10–70). Later,
Alhazen gave a
complete statement of the law of reflection. He was
first to state...
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found throughout history, for
instance with the
ancient Stoics, Epicurus,
Alhazen, Avicenna, Al-Biruni,
Roger Bacon, and
William of Ockham. In the scientific...
