Ibn al-Haytham performed a lot of other experiments in that dark room with a hole in it. The size of the hole, how the moon and solar eclipses looked, how lenses and mirrors bent and bounced light.

Pinhole cameras are an ancient technology. They were known by the Chinese since 500 BCE. Arabic astronomer Ibn al-Haytham first used one to view an eclipses around 1000 CE.

Ibn Al-Haytham’s scientific skepticism should be emulated across the Arab World. Mohammed Yahia The Book of Optics is Ibn Al-Haytham seven-volume treatise on optics The UN has called 2015 the ...

In 1011, Ibn al-Haytham was placed under house arrest by a powerful caliph in Cairo. Though unwelcome, the seclusion was just what he needed to explore the nature of light. Over the next decade, Ibn ...

Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn Al-Haytham was born in 965 CE in Basrah, and was educated in Basrah and Baghdad. Thereafter, he went to Egypt, where he was asked to find ways of controlling the ...

According to the Public Relations Department of Al-Mustafa (AS) Award, Mehdi Aliakbarzadeh highlighted holding of Light 0f Ibn Al-Haytham Student Film Festival; “in the present era, media are of ...

In it, Ibn al-Haytham gives detailed descriptions of his experiments, such as exploring how light rays are reflected off plain and curved surfaces. He includes the apparatus he used, the way he ...

LONDON, Jan 5: A Muslim scientist, Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, born in AD 965, is said to have made it possible, with his pioneering work in physics, for Isaac Newton to fathom the universe and ...

Ibn al-Haytham's 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton's Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very ...

LONDON, Jan 5 A Muslim scientist, Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, born in AD 965, is said to have made it possible, with his pioneering work in physics, for Isaac Newton to fathom the universe and ...