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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Alhazen, Ulugh Beg, Omar Khayyam, Mu ammad ibn M s al-Khw rizm, Al-Kindi, Brethren of Purity, Ab Ray n al-B r n, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Avempace, Ab K mil Shuj ibn Aslam, Jamsh d al-K sh, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Qotb al-Din Shirazi, Ab Ish q Ibr h m al-Zarq l, Kam l al-D n F ris, Th bit ibn Qurra, Mu ammad ibn J bir al- arr n al-Batt n, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Ab al-Waf ' B zj n, Ibn Yunus, Mashallah ibn Athari, Ab an fa D nawar, Jabir ibn Aflah, Ban M s, Al-Karaji, Ab al- asan ibn Al al-Qala d, Ya q b ibn riq, Ibn Yahy al-Maghrib al-Samaw'al, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kath r al-Fargh n, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, 'Abd al-Ham d ibn Turk, Ibn Sahl, Ath r al-D n al-Abhar, Mu ammad ibn Ibr h m al-Faz r, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Abu Nasr Mansur, Ibn Mu dh al-Jayy n, Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ab Ja'far al-Kh zin, Sijzi, Q Z da al-R m, Ab Sahl al-Q h, Al-Khazini, Al ibn Ahmad al-Nasaw, Al-Saghani, Al-Nayrizi, Al-Abb s ibn Said al-Jawhar, Sharaf al-D n al- s, Kushyar ibn Labban, Sahl ibn Bishr, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Al-Mahani, Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi, Muhyi al-D n al-Maghrib, Al- ajj j ibn Y suf ibn Ma ar, Shams al-D n al-Samarqand, Muhammad Baqir Yazdi, Nazif ibn Yumn, Al-Isfahani, Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, Ahmad Nahavandi, Sinan ibn Thabit, Abu Said Gorgani. Excerpt: (Arabic:, Persian:, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1040 in Cairo) was a Muslim, scientist and polymath described in various sources as either Arabic or Persian. He is frequently referred to as Ibn al-Haytham, and sometimes as al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. Alhazen made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physi...