Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speed of light, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Alhacen
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

male, deceased (1048)
Al-Biruni crater, universal genius, Islamic astrology, al-Biruni, Islamic mathematics, Alhacen
"'"' (September 15 973 in Kath, Khwarezm - December 13 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian Muslim universal genius of the 11th Century, whose experiments...