Ibn Al-Haytham - The First Scientist - Origin of the Camera

Ibn Al-Haytham (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) also known as Alhazen is credited with developing "The Scientific Method". He was a polymath from the Muslim world who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology and visual perception.

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Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi-faith scientists in Muslim civilisation have had a huge but hidden influence on the modern world.

Knowledge from Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian and Roman civilisations was highly prized in the Muslim world.

Men and women scholars advanced science by building upon the ancients and making breakthroughs that paved the way for the European Renaissance.

This Golden Age of Discovery in the Muslim World (southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and to China) took place during the so-called Dark Ages of Europe.

Muslim civilisation promoted free-thinking, rationalism and tolerance. Many scholars expressed their faith by seeking to serve society and improve quality of life for others.

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Science & Technology

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• Ibn Al-Haytham
• Alhazen
• Camera Obscura
• The Scientific Method
• Optics
• Muslim Civilisation
• Science
• Technology
• Culture
• History
• Adam Hart-Davis

[ktwothegreat]

Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76.

Known for: Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, On the Configuration of the World, The Model of the Motions, Treatise on Light, Treatise on Place, scientific method, experimental science, experimental physics, experimental psychology, visual perception, analytic geometry, non-Ptolemaic astronomy, celestial mechanics

[ramielafandy]

an amazing Muslim scientist...

I ask Allah to bless us with more of scientists like him nowadays...

[insomniacgrace]

Ang galing ng place :).... ang IMBA ng katalinuhan na meron siya... amzing siya na scientist..... thanks for the knowledge you have :) \m/

[zaazi123]

so every person holding and using a camera in this planet owes a debt to ibn-haytham, my son shares the same name and he is so pleased to have the same name as a great scientist

[AathAar]

Iam proud of al hytham as muslim scientist :)

and i hope we do like him

[zizy30]

amazing

[nadia6291]

اللهم صلي على محمد وعلى آل محمد .

[mo9a7ia1]

Thank you

Adam Hart-Davis

Has many programs in this area

[kalacaw]

Thank you for taking the time to produce this excellent video. 

[bofhd89o]

WOW amazing arab scholar ;)