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Why is it important that alhazen begin t test his hypothesis with experiments?

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The experiment is performed in order to either accept or reject the hypothesis based upon the results
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Accept Or Reject

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Born c. 965 (c. 354 AH)

Basra, Buyid Emirate

Died c. 1040 (c. 430 AH) (aged around 75)

Cairo, Fatimid Caliphate

Religion Islam

Denomination Sunni

Creed Ash'ari

Known for Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, Alhazen's problem, analysis, Catoptrics, horopter, intromission theory of visual perception, moon illusion, experimental science, scientific methodology, theory of perception, animal

Muslim leader

Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one's eyes. He was also the first to demonstrate that vision occurs in the brain, rather than in the eyes. Building upon a naturalistic, empirical method pioneered by Aristotle in ancient Greece, Ibn al-Haytham was an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence—an early pioneer in the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.

Born in Basra, he spent most of his productive period in the Fatimid capital of Cairo and earned his living authoring various treatises and tutoring members of the nobilities. Ibn al-Haytham is sometimes given the byname al-Baṣrī after his birthplace, or al-Miṣrī ("of Egypt"). Al-Haytham was dubbed the "Second Ptolemy" by Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi and "The Physicist" by John Peckham.Ibn al-Haytham paved the way for the modern science of physical optics.

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Biography

Book of Optics

Theory of optics

Scientific method

Alhazen's problem

Other contributions

Other works on physics

Optical treatises

Celestial physics

Mechanics

Astronomical works

On the Configuration of the World

Doubts Concerning Ptolemy

Model of the Motions of Each of the Seven Planets

Other astronomical works

Mathematical works

Geometry

Number theory

Calculus

Other works

Influence of Melodies on the Souls of Animals

Engineering

Philosophy

Theology

Legacy

Commemorations

List of works

Lost works

See also

Notes

References

Sources

Further reading

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Secondary

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