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Alhazen

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Noun

1. al-hasan ibn al-haytham, al-haytham, alhacen, alhazen, ibn al-haytham

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)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


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