Alhazen

Ibn al-Haytham, in Latin Alhazen, who lived ca. 354

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

The breakthrough came from an Arab physicist Alhazen around 1000 AD, who noticed that light traveled into the eye and caused it pain.

Fire from the Eyes James Gurney 2010

Written for young adults, it is the world's first full biography of the eleventh-century Muslim scholar known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen.

Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras Code Monkey 2008

The breakthrough came from an Arab physicist Alhazen around 1000 AD, who noticed that light traveled into the eye and caused it pain.

Archive 2010-03-01 James Gurney 2010

Bacon's experiments confirmed the principle of the convex (converging) lens, described by Alhazen (965-1038) Arabian mathematician, optician and astronomer at Cairo, and even earlier by the Greeks.

Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives 2006

In the West, though, they were better known by their Latin names, such as Alkindus, Alhazen, Averroes and Avicenna.

Medieval Sciences in the Islamic World 2008

“Alhazen,” for in those days little was known except through the Arabs.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The author of the best medieval work on optics, which influenced Witelo and Kepler, Alhazen was also

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

The emphasis upon the crystalline nature of the spheres by Alhazen was precisely a statement of this belief.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

Northrop and the positivists and the analysts reveals in retrospect the significance of the realism imparted to mathematical physics by Alhazen and certain other

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968