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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Alhazen, Omar Khayyam, Ab Ray n al-B r n, Mu ammad ibn M s al-Khw rizm, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jamsh d al-K sh, Ali Qushji, Kam l al-D n F ris, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Ban M s, Sharaf al-D n al- s, Ab al-Waf ' B zj n, Mashallah ibn Athari, Al-Karaji, Iranshahri, Ya q b ibn riq, Al-Birjandi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kath r al-Fargh n, Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Mu ammad ibn Ibr h m al-Faz r, Abu Nasr Mansur, Sijzi, Ab Ja'far al-Kh zin, Ab Sahl al-Q h, Al-Saghani, Al-Nayrizi, Al ibn Ahmad al-Nasaw, Kushyar ibn Labban, Al-Mahani, Ath r al-D n al-Abhar, Muhammad Baqir Yazdi, Al-Isfahani, Ahmad Nahavandi, Abu Said Gorgani, Nazif ibn Yumn. Excerpt: (Arabic:, Persian:, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1040 in Cairo) was a Muslim, Persian or Arab scientist and polymath. He is frequently referred to as Ibn al-Haytham, and sometimes as al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. 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 was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Alhazen wrote insightful commentaries on works by Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Greek mathematician Euclid. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and reti...
