About: Ibn al-Haytham   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/cEaq1BhedkGINeisNDGorw==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist, engineer, inventor and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early development and application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: البصري), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Ibn al-Haytham
rdfs:comment
  • Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist, engineer, inventor and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early development and application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: البصري), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe.
sameAs
image name
  • Ibn al-Haytham.png
Era
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:islam/prope...iPageUsesTemplate
notability
Name
  • al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn
Works
  • Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, On the Configuration of the World, The Model of the Motions, Treatise on Light, Treatise on Place
Region
  • Basra in present-day Iraq, a part of Buyid Persia at that time
main interests
Alternative Names
  • Alhacen; Alhazen; al-Basri
notable idea
  • Pioneer in optics, scientific method, experimental science, experimental physics, experimental psychology, visual perception, phenomenology, analytic geometry, non-Ptolemaic astronomy, celestial mechanics, engineering
Date of Death
  • c. 1040
Title
  • Ibn al-Haytham and Alhacen
Influences
Color
  • #cef2e0
Place of Birth
Place of death
upright image caption
  • Ibn al-Haytham drawing taken from a 1982 Iraqi 10-dinar note.
Date of Birth
  • 965(xsd:integer)
Death
  • c. 1040 CE
Short Description
  • Scientist
Birth
  • 965(xsd:integer)
influenced
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software