Ibn Al-Haytham
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 8260 years ago |
| Born | Basrah |
| Iraq | |
| Date of died | March 6,1040 |
| Died | Cairo |
| Egypt | |
| Full name | Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham |
| Nationality | Abbasid |
| Iranian | |
| Residence | Basrah |
| Iraq | |
| Cairo | |
| Egypt | |
| Job | Physician |
| Engineer | |
| Mathematician | |
| Physicist | |
| Writer | |
| Astronomer | |
| Philosopher | |
| Field | Physics, mathematics, astronomy |
| Books | Basrah, Iraq |
| Book of Optics | |
| De aspectibus | |
| Shukūk ʻalá Baṭlamyūs | |
| On the Light of the Moon | |
| Influencees | Johannes Kepler |
| René Descartes | |
| Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi | |
| Influence | Euclid |
| Thābit ibn Qurra | |
| Ibn Sahl | |
| Date of birth | January 1,5663 |
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| ID | 1680116 |
Ibn Al-Haytham Life story
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular.