Meaning of al-hasan ibn al-haytham

Definition of al-hasan ibn al-haytham

(noun) an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)

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