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Chapters: Ancient Astronomers, Medieval Astronomers, Alhazen, Ulugh Beg, Khalid Ben Abdulmelik, Ali Ibn Isa, Shen Kuo, Muhammad Ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizmī, Su Song, Aryabhata, Petrus Alphonsi, Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi, Abraham Bar Hiyya, Al-Khazini, Berossus, Bhāskara Ii, Jang Yeong-Sil, Nilakantha Somayaji, Ibn Al-Shatir, Anania Shirakatsi, Gerard of Cremona, Ibn Yunus, Parameshvara, Zhang Sixun, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Yajnavalkya, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Abraham Zacuto, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm Al-Zarqālī, Mashallah, Richard of Wallingford, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Varahamihira, Li Chunfeng, Wei Pu, Utpala, Śrīpati, Ibn Yahyā Al-Maghribī Al-Samaw'al, Gregory Choniades, Mordecai Comtino, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathīr Al-Farghānī, Johannes Von Gmunden, Jacob Ben Machir Ibn Tibbon, Ali Ibn Ridwan, List of Muslim Astronomers, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Abū Muhammad Al-Hasan Al-Hamdānī, Isaac Israeli Ben Joseph, Nissim of Gerona, Abu-Mahmud Al-Khujandi, Ma Yize, Saint Dungal, Anvari, Jamal Ad-Din, Walcher of Malvern, Solomon Ben Elijah Sharbit, Sibt Al-Mardini, Jacob Ben David Ben Yomtob, Lalla, Eugenius Ii of Toledo, Brahmadeva, Rudolf of Bruges, Harkhebi, Muhyi Al-Dīn Al-Maghribī, Isaac Ibn Sid, Lupitus of Barcelona, Heinrich Baten, Robertus Anglicus, Abu Sa'id Al-Darir Al-Jurjani, Moses Botarel Farissol, Abolfadl Harawi, Maeriam Al-Ijliya Al-Astrulabi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 361. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shen Kuo or Shen Gua (Chinese: ; pinyin: Shn Kuò; Wade-Giles: Shen K'uo) (10311095), style name Cunzhong () and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (), was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (9601279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1102000 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kwame Akatuku (21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972), was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. In 1909, Kwame Akatookoo was born to Madam Nyaniba in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkrumah graduated from the prestigious Achimota School in Accra in 1930, studied at a Roman Catholic Seminary, and taught at a Catholic school in Axim. In 1935 he left Ghana for the United States, receiving a BA from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1939, where he pledged the Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and received an STB (Bachelor of Sacred Theology) in 1942. Akatuku earned a Master of Science in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and a Master of Arts in philosophy the following year. While lecturing in political science at Lincoln he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada. As an undergraduate at Lincoln he participated in at least one student theater production and published an essay on European government in Africa in the student newspaper,The Lincolnian. During his time in the United States, Nkrumah preached at black Presbyterian Churches in Philadelphia and New York City. He read books about politics and divinity, and tutored students in philosophy. Nkrumah encountered the ideas of Marcus Garvey, and in 1943 met and began a lengthy correspondence with Trinidadian Marxist C.L.R. James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs, all of whom were members of a US based Trotskyist intellectual cohort. Nkrumah later credited James with teaching him 'how an underground movement worked'. He arrived in London in May 1945 intending to study at the LSE. After meeting... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17062 ... Read more

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Chapters: Persian Astronomers, Alhazen, Omar Khayyám, Khalid Ben Abdulmelik, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Muhammad Ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizmī, Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi, Jamshīd Al-Kāshī, Ali Qushji, Banū Mūsā, Mashallah, Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sufi, Abu Ma'shar Al-Balkhi, Al-Birjandi, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathīr Al-Farghānī, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Yaqūb Ibn Tāriq, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Abu-Mahmud Al-Khujandi, Anvari, Ibrahim Al-Fazari, Jamal Ad-Din, Babak Amin Tafreshi, Naubakht, Ahmad Nahavandi, Abu Sa'id Al-Darir Al-Jurjani, Mūsā Ibn Shākir, Abolfadl Harawi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 179. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alhazen, Al-Kindi, Brethren of Purity, Jamil Sidqi Al-Zahawi. Excerpt:Ab Y suf Ya q b ibn Is q al-Kind (Arabic : ) Ab Y suf Ya q b ibn Is q al-Kind (Arabic : ) (c. 801 873 CE), also known to the West by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus , was an Arab Iraqi polymath : an Islamic philosopher , scientist , astrologer , astronomer , cosmologist , chemist , logician , mathematician , musician , physician , physicist , psychologist , and meteorologist . Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim Peripatetic philosophers, and is known for his efforts to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Arab world , and as a pioneer in chemistry , medicine , music theory , physics , psychology ,the philosophy of science , and is also known for being one of the fathers of cryptography . Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe which is a well known Arabic tribe native of Najd (present day Saudi Arabia ). He was born and educated in Kufa , before pursuing further studies in Baghdad . Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom , and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language . This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek and Hellenistic philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write original treatises on subjects ranging from Islamic ethics and metaphysics to Islamic mathematics and pharmacology . In mathematics, al-Kindi played an important role in introducing Indian numerals to the Islamic and Christian world. He was a pioneer in cryptanalysis and cryptology , and devised new methods of breaking ciphers , including the frequency analysis method. Using his mathematical and me... ... Read more

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Chapters: Iraqi Christians, Iraqi Jews, Iraqi Muslims, Iraqi Atheists, Kurdish Muslims, Alhazen, Hormuzd Rassam, Ovadia Yosef, Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf, Exilarch, Rita Katz, Sassoon Eskell, Naeim Giladi, Ziryab, Reuven Snir, Mar Dinkha Iv, Nawshirwan Mistefa, Arab Jews, Bisher Amin Khalil Al-Rawi, Ari Ben-Menashe, J. F. R. Jacob, Harel Skaat, Jalal Talabani, Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Anan Ben David, Yitzchak Kaduri, David and Simon Reuben, Charles Saatchi, Shlomo Hillel, Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Barham Salih, Shahab Sheikh Nuri, Ya'qub Bilbul, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, David Ben Merwan Al-Mukkamas, Alan Yentob, Brian George, Mar Eshai Shimun Xxiii, Eli Amir, Ahmed Barzani, Avi Shlaim, Ronny Someck, Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo, Victor Sasson, Sami Michael, Greg Patent, Elie Kedourie, Yitzhak Mordechai, Abo of Tiflis, Mubarak Al-Duri, Ibrahim Ahmad, Gad Ben-Meir, Mordechai Ben-Porat, Dalia Itzik, Houda Nonoo, Chemda Khalili, Ibn Kammuna, Moshe Agami, Michael Kadoorie, Moshe Shahal, Louis Cheikhô, Jack Marshall, Ran Cohen, Timz, Oren Ambarchi, Dahlia Wasfi, Parine Jaddo, David Rabeeya, Shafiq Ades, Eliyahu Gabai, Rachel Wahba, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, Jamil Sidqi Al-Zahawi, Qubad Talabani, Shlomo Eliyahu, Ovadia Eli, Sassoon Baronets, Zana Briski, Naguib El-Rihani, Ashley Sawdaye, Silas Aaron Hardoon, Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino, Alon Ben-Meir, Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, Ellis Kadoorie, Ra'anan Cohen, Amir Slama, Avraham Yosef, Musa Al-Musawi, Anilai and Asinai, Yitzhak Yamin, Mordechai Bibi, Leilah Nadir, Hussam Al-Rassam, Shalom Cohen, Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, Sassoon David Sassoon, Mosh Ben-Ari, Moshe Barazani, N. J. Dawood, Dalli Hadad, Nuzhat Katzav, Elly Kadoorie, Ibn Jazla, Horace Kadoorie, Ella Shohat, Robert Mizrachi, Naïm Kattan, Samir Naqqash, Inbar Bakal, Julie Iny, Efraim Shalom, Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, Najmadin Shukr Rauf, Yona Sabar, Aryeh Bibi, Teddy Smouha, Samuel Hayek, Joe Balas...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alhazen, Abd-El-Latif, Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Sa'ad Al-Dawla, Masawaiyh, Masarjawaih, Al-Shahrazuri, Abu Haftzah Yazid. Excerpt:Abd-al-latif , Abd-el-latif or Abd-ul-Latif (1162 1231), also known as al-Baghdadi (Arabic ,), born in Baghdad , Iraq , was a celebrated physician , historian , Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time. Biography An interesting memoir of Abdallatif, written by himself, has been preserved with additions by Ibn Abu-Osaiba (Ibn abi Usaibia), a contemporary. From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar , and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur'an , a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence , and the choicest Arabic poetry. After attaining to great proficiency in that kind of learning, Abdallatif applied himself to natural philosophy and medicine . To enjoy the society of the learned, he went first to Mosul (1189), and afterwards to Damascus . With letters of recommendation from Saladin 's vizier , he visited Egypt , where he realized his wish to converse with Maimonides , the Eagle of the Doctors . He afterwards formed one of the circles of learned men whom Saladin gathered around him at Jerusalem . He taught medicine and philosophy at Cairo and at Damascus for a number of years, and afterwards, for a shorter period, at Aleppo . His love of travel led him to visit different parts of Armenia and Asia Minor in his old age. Also, he was in the process of setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca when he died at Baghdad. Account of Egypt Sociology in medieval Islam Abdallatif was undoubtedly a man of great knowledge and of an inquisitive and penetrating mind. Of the numerous ... ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Diophantus, Alhazen, Al-Kindi, Brethren of Purity, Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Banū Mūsā, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Ibn Yahyā Al-Maghribī Al-Samaw'al, 'abd Al-Hamīd Ibn Turk, Ibn Sahl, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Ahmed Ibn Yusuf, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abū Ja'far Al-Khāzin, Abdul Jerri, Al-Saghani, Al-Abbās Ibn Said Al-Jawharī, Ibrahim Ibn Sinan, Abu'l-Hasan Al-Uqlidisi, Ibn Tahir Al-Baghdadi, Sinan Ibn Thabit. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Rumi, Alhazen, Avicenna, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, Omar Khayyám, Al-Ghazali, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi, Mulla Sadra, Shahab Al-Din Suhrawardi, Sultan Walad, Nasir Khusraw, Taftazani, Abu Mansur Maturidi, Shams Tabrizi, Miskawayh, Al-Zamakhshari, Mu'ayyad Fi'l-Din Al-Shirazi, Mir Damad, Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Tabrizi, Ayn Al-Quzat Hamadani, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Mir Fendereski, Hamid Al-Din Al-Kirmani, Sadr Al-Din Al-Qunawi, Muhsen Feyz Kashani, Azar Kayvan, Mulla Hadi Sabzevari, Bahmanyār, List of Iranian Philosophers, Qazi Sa'id Qumi, Fakhr-Al-Din Iraqi, Abu Sulayman Al-Sijistani, Al Amiri, Ja'far Kashfi, Iranshahri, Abu Tahir Marwazi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 307. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Conrad Ii, Holy Roman Emperor, Alhazen, Dirk Iii, Count of Holland, Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim, Odo of Gascony, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, Brihtmær, Conrad Ii, Duke of Carinthia, Reginar V, Count of Mons, Iago Ab Idwal Ap Meurig, Unsuri, Regimbald, Hugh of Chalon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 74. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his influential Book of Optics which proved the intromission theory of vision and refined it into essentially its modern form. He is also ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Alhazen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 134. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his influential Book of Optics which proved the intromission theory of vision and refined it into essentially its modern form. He is also recognized so for his experiments on optics, including experiments on lenses, mirrors, refraction, reflection, and the dispersion of light into its constituent colours. He studied binocular vision and the Moon illusion, described the finite speed of light, and a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alhazen, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Al-Battani, Taqi Al-Din, Abū Muhammad Al-Hasan Al-Hamdānī, Ibn Al-Banna, Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi, Ali Ibn Isa, Ebn Al Aalam. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Perse:ابن هیثم ,arabe : ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) dit Alhazen (Bassorah 965 - Le Caire 1039) est un mathématicien, un philosophe et un physicien arabe ou persan de confession musulmane. Il est l'un des pères de la physique quantitative et de l'optique physiologique. Alhazen est né en 965 à Bassorah dans l'actuel Irak où il reçut une éducation qu'il compléta cependant dans la ville de Bagdad. À l'époque, Bassorah était sous le contrôle de la dynastie des Buwayhides qui régnèrent sur la Perse. C'est pourquoi il est parfois mentionné sous le nom d'al-Basri. Bien que cette version ne soit pas acceptée par tous, la plupart des gens s'entendent pour dire qu'il est décédé au Caire en Égypte en 1039. Alhazen commença sa carrière de scientifique dans sa ville natale de Bassorah. Il fut cependant convoqué par le calife Hakim qui voulait maîtriser les inondations du Nil qui frappaient l'Égypte année après année. Après avoir mené une expédition en plein désert pour remonter jusqu'à la source du fameux fleuve, Alhazen se rendit compte que ce projet était pratiquement impossible. De retour au Caire, il craignait que le calife qui était furieux de son échec ne se vengeât et décida donc de feindre la folie. Le calife se borna à l'assigner à résidence. Alhazen profita de ce loisir forcé pour écrire plusieurs livres sur des sujets variés comme l'astronomie, la médecine, les mathématiques, la méthode scientifique et l'optique. Le nombre exact de ses écrits n'e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Alhazen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 268. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his influential Book of Optics which proved the intromission theory of vision and refined it into essentially its modern form. He is also recognized so for his experiments on optics, including experiments on lenses, mirrors, refraction, reflection, and the dispersion of light into its constituent colours. He studied binocular vision and the Moon illusion, described the finite speed of light, and a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alhazen, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Ibn Yunus, Ahmed Ibn Sahl Al-Balkhi, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Al-Karaji, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Notker Labeo, Abū Kāmil Shujā Ibn Aslam, Ahmed Ibn Yusuf, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Al-Sijzi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abū Ja'far Al-Khāzin, Al-Saghani, Kushyar Ibn Labban, Al-Nayrizi, Ibrahim Ibn Sinan, Abu'l-Hasan Al-Uqlidisi, Al-Isfahani, Aṣ-Ṣaidanānī, Sinān Ibn Al-Fatḥ, Jayadeva, Joseph of Spain, Nazif Ibn Yumn, Halayudha, Vateshvara. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is reg...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Medieval Persian Physicians, Alhazen, Avicenna, Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi, Bukhtishu, Ahmed Ibn Sahl Al-Balkhi, Ali Ibn Abbas Al-Majusi, Zayn Al-Din Al-Jurjani, List of Medieval and Pre-Modern Persian Doctors, Sa'ad Al-Dawla, Zakariya Al-Qazwini, Jaghmini, Yusuf Al-Ilaqi, Mansur Ibn Ilyas, Amin Al-Din Rashid Al-Din Vatvat, Al-Shahrazuri, Muhammad Ibn Mahmud Amuli, Muvaffak, Burhan-Ud-Din Kermani, Aqsara'i, Abu Ul-Ala Shirazi, Muhammad Aqa-Kermani, Masoud Kazerouni, Nakhshabi, Mas'ud Ibn Muhammad Sijzi, Najm Al-Din Mahmud Ibn Ilyas Al-Shirazi, Jabril Ibn Bukhtishu, Qurayshi Al-Shirazi, Hajji Zayn Al-Attar, Qiwam Al-Din Muhammad Al-Hasani, Al-Masihi, Al-Qumri, Abu Ubaid Juzjani, Najib-Ad-Din Samarqandi, Borzūya, Nafi Ibn Al-Harith, Ahmad Ibn Farrokh, Al-Nagawri, Albubather, Shapur Ibn Sahl, Abul Hasan Al-Tabari, Al-Natili. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 196. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alhazen, Dudon de Saint-Quentin, Thierry Ier de Lorraine, Godefroy Ier de Basse-Lotharingie, Elvire de Castille. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Perse:ابن هیثم ,arabe : ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) dit Alhazen (Bassorah 965 - Le Caire 1039) est un mathématicien, un philosophe et un physicien arabe ou persan de confession musulmane. Il est l'un des pères de la physique quantitative et de l'optique physiologique. Alhazen est né en 965 à Bassorah dans l'actuel Irak où il reçut une éducation qu'il compléta cependant dans la ville de Bagdad. À l'époque, Bassorah était sous le contrôle de la dynastie des Buwayhides qui régnèrent sur la Perse. C'est pourquoi il est parfois mentionné sous le nom d'al-Basri. Bien que cette version ne soit pas acceptée par tous, la plupart des gens s'entendent pour dire qu'il est décédé au Caire en Égypte en 1039. Alhazen commença sa carrière de scientifique dans sa ville natale de Bassorah. Il fut cependant convoqué par le calife Hakim qui voulait maîtriser les inondations du Nil qui frappaient l'Égypte année après année. Après avoir mené une expédition en plein désert pour remonter jusqu'à la source du fameux fleuve, Alhazen se rendit compte que ce projet était pratiquement impossible. De retour au Caire, il craignait que le calife qui était furieux de son échec ne se vengeât et décida donc de feindre la folie. Le calife se borna à l'assigner à résidence. Alhazen profita de ce loisir forcé pour écrire plusieurs livres sur des sujets variés comme l'astronomie, la médecine, les mathématiques, la méthode scientifique et l'optique. Le nombre exact de ses écrits n'est pas connu avec certitude mais on parle d'un nombre ent...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alhazen, Al-Jazari, Banū Mūsā, Aban Elias. Excerpt:Aban Abdel Malek Mahmoud Elias is an Iraqi American civil engineer from Denver, Colorado . He was kidnapped on May 3, 2004 while working as an engineer on a road building project in Baghdad . He was shown being held hostage in a video on Al Arabiya television station. While, blindfolded and posed against a stone wall, he was shown pleading for help. A transcript provided by Al Arabiya quoted him as saying in English: "My name is Aban Elias from Denver, Colorado. I am a civil engineer working in Baghdad ... and we are working with the Pentagon. ... I was kidnapped, and I call upon Muslim organizations to interfere to release me." He has not been seen or heard from since. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ab al-'Iz Ibn Ism ' l ibn al-Raz z al-Jazar (1136-1206) (Arabic : ) was a prominent Muslim polymath : a scholar , inventor , mechanical engineer , craftsman , artist , mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia , who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages ). He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya ( Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices ) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them. Biography Al-Jazari (1136-1206) Little is known about Al-Jazari, and most of that comes from the introduction to his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices . He was named after the area in which he was born, Al-Jazira the traditional Arabic name for what was northern Mesopotamia and what is now northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria , between the Tigris and the Euphrates . Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace , the residence of the Diyarb... ... Read more

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Alhazen. Polymath, Optics, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Visual perception, Lens (optics), Mirror, Refraction, Reflection (physics), Light, Binocular vision, Moon illusion, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Al-Azhar University, House of Wisdom, Snell's law, Occam's razor, Book of Optics ... Read more

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Chapters: 10th-Century Mathematicians, Alhazen, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Ibn Yunus, Ahmed Ibn Sahl Al-Balkhi, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Al-Karaji, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Notker Labeo, Abū Kāmil Shujā Ibn Aslam, Ahmed Ibn Yusuf, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Al-Sijzi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abū Ja'far Al-Khāzin, Al-Saghani, Kushyar Ibn Labban, Al-Nayrizi, Ibrahim Ibn Sinan, Abu'l-Hasan Al-Uqlidisi, Abu Ul-Ala Shirazi, Al-Isfahani, Aṣ-Ṣaidanānī, Sinān Ibn Al-Fatḥ, Jayadeva, Joseph of Spain, Nazif Ibn Yumn, Halayudha, Vateshvara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 136. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Chapters: Alhazen, Al-Kindi, Mulla Effendi, Ali Al Wardi, Banū Mūsā, Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Ghanim Al-Jumaily, Khidir Hamza, Abū Al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Hussain Al-Shahristani, Emanuel Kamber, Abū Sahl Al-Qūhī, Masawaiyh, Elias Alsabti, Abdul Rasul, Modher Sadeq-Saba Al-Tamimi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: , Persian: , Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was an Arab or Persian scientist and polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his early application of the scientific method. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq and part of Buyid Persia at that time, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering. Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his influential Book of Optics which proved the intromission theory of vision and refined it into essentially its modern form. He is also recognize...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1645 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alhazen, Al-Kindi, Ibn Tahir Al-Baghdadi, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Al-Battani, Al-Qalasadi, Ahmad Ibn Yusuf, Ibn Al-Banna, Ibn Yahyā Al-Maghribī Al-Samaw'al, Abou Ma'shar Al-Balkhî, Abu Kamil, Ibn Sahl, Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Ibn Matar, Kamāl Al-Dīn Al-Fārisī, Liste Des Mathématiciens Arabo-Musulmans, Abu'l-Hasan Al-Uqlidisi, Habab. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Perse:ابن هیثم ,arabe : ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) dit Alhazen (Bassorah 965 - Le Caire 1039) est un mathématicien, un philosophe et un physicien arabe ou persan de confession musulmane. Il est l'un des pères de la physique quantitative et de l'optique physiologique. Alhazen est né en 965 à Bassorah dans l'actuel Irak où il reçut une éducation qu'il compléta cependant dans la ville de Bagdad. À l'époque, Bassorah était sous le contrôle de la dynastie des Buwayhides qui régnèrent sur la Perse. C'est pourquoi il est parfois mentionné sous le nom d'al-Basri. Bien que cette version ne soit pas acceptée par tous, la plupart des gens s'entendent pour dire qu'il est décédé au Caire en Égypte en 1039. Alhazen commença sa carrière de scientifique dans sa ville natale de Bassorah. Il fut cependant convoqué par le calife Hakim qui voulait maîtriser les inondations du Nil qui frappaient l'Égypte année après année. Après avoir mené une expédition en plein désert pour remonter jusqu'à la source du fameux fleuve, Alhazen se rendit compte que ce projet était pratiquement impossible. De retour au Caire, il craignait que le calife qui était furieux de son échec ne se vengeât et décida donc de feindre la folie. Le calife se borna à l'assigner à résidence. Alhazen profita de ce loisir forcé...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more