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Editor-Majeed elaborated on the role of Muslim physicians and scholars in modern medicine and mentioned the contributions of various Arab doctors during the middle ages. 1 Here is a contribution to optics.
Ibn al-Haytham (known to the West as Alhacen or Alhazen) lived from 965 to about 1040. He was a distinguished mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of his time, and he became known in Europe as the author of a monumental book on optics, Kitab al-Manazir (translated into...