Alhazen
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 Front page of a Latin edition of Alhazen's Thesaurus opticus, showing how Archimedes set on fire the Roman ships before Syracuse with the help of parabolic mirrors. |
' (Arabic: أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen' or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra – c. 1040 in Cairo) was a Muslimhttp://www.amualumni.8m.com/Scientist3.htm
http://www.islamic-study.org/optics.htm</ref> scientist and polymath described in various sources as either Arab or Persian.
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</ref> Alhazen made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, astronomy, mathematics, ophthalmology, philosophy, visual perception, and to the scientific method. He also wrote insightful commentaries on works by Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Greek mathematician Euclid.
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