Ibn al Haytham - The First Scientist - Alhazen - Ibn al Haitham - Alhacen  
Arabic for Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al Haytham, the eleventh-century Muslim scholar known in the West as Ahazen, Ahacen, or Alhazeni.

 

 

How optics and asylum created a research genius by Bradley Steffens published in the inaugural issue of QScience Review.

Ibn al-Haytham - How optics and asylum created a research genius

The inaugural issue of QScience Review features an article about Ibn al-Haytham by Bradley Steffens, author of Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist. The article describes how Ibn al-Haytham pioneered the scientific method while under house arrest for ten years in the Fatimid Caliphate.

 

Click here to read "How optics and asylum created a research genius" by Bradley Steffens.

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