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#Alhazen or Ibn al-Haytham - the father of #Optics and scientific method in #NationalGeographic Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey- PLEASE SHARE! #NG #Cosmos #Islam #Astronomy #Science #IslamicScience #Muslims Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم), frequently referred to as Ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابن الهيثم, Latinized as Alhazen or Alhacen; c. 965 – c. 1040), was an Muslim, polymath and philosopher who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, astronomy, mathematics, meteorology, visual perception and the scientific method. In medieval Europe, he was honored as Ptolemaeus Secundus (“Ptolemy the Second“) or simply called “The Physicist“. He is also sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: البصري) after Basra, his birthplace. He spent most of his life close to the court of the Fatimid Caliphate in Cairo and earned his living authoring various treatises and tutoring members of the nobilities. Alhazen made significant contributions to opt
