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Ibn al-Haytham

Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

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    Opticæ thesavrvs Alhazeni Arabis libri septem nunc primùm editi, eivsdem liber de crepvscvlis et nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thvringopoloni libri X. Omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti adiectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs à Federico Risnero / [Alhazen].

    Alhazen, 965-1039. | Date: 1572
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    Studies on the history of Islamic medicine and related fields. 1 / by Max Meyerhof.

    Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945. | Date: 1997
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    The trace on the moons̀ face / Ibn al-Haytham prefaced by Ismail Serageldin, edited by Youssef Ziedan.

    Alhazen, 965-1039. | Date: 2002
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    al-Shukūk ʻalá Baṭlamyūs : (Dubitationes in Ptolemaeum) / edited by A.Sabra and N. Shehaby.

    Alhazen, 965-1039. | Date: 1971
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    Majmūʻ al-rasāʼil / li-l-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (d.c.1041).

    Alhazen, 965-1039. | Date: 1998
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