Ibn al-Haytham, in Latin Alhazen, who lived ca. 354.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

I enjoyed your reference to Ibn al-Haytham in your essay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras] Reference

Or Ibn al-Haytham, the 11th-century physicist from Cairo who made pioneering advances in optics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Islamic Enlightenment] Reference

If your readers would like to know more about him, I would like to recommend my new book, Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras] Reference

And in comments I listed Muslim polymath Ibn al-Haytham 965-1039 as one of the top five, in his case for inventing the scientific method.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin] Reference

The abilities to capture light and display a moment of time has come a long way since the camera obscura was discovered by Ibn al-Haytham around 1000 CE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras] Reference

The short story "The Scholar and the Caliph" covers the 10 years when al-Haytham, under house arrest, came up with his revolutionary theories about the form and passage of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medievel scholar's epiphany about light is focus of short story set in Egypt] Reference

As the first person to systematically test hypotheses with experiments, Ibn al-Haytham deserves recognition not only as the “father of optics” but also as the first scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts: The Age of Intelligent Cameras] Reference

One thousand years after al-Haytham sketched the neural wiring for eyesight, the brain is rendered in rich colour as 3D computer images that can be rotated, flipped and peered inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The human brain unravelled] Reference

Ibn al-Haytham in the tenth-eleventh century wrote a scathing critique of Ptolemy's work: “Ptolemy assumed an arrangement that cannot exist, and the fact that this arrangement produces in his imagination the motions that belong to the planets does not free him from the error he committed in his assumed arrangement, for the existing motions of the planets cannot be the result of an arrangement that is impossible to exist” (quoted in Rosen 1984, 174).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicolaus Copernicus] Reference

Regiment raided Basra's Ibn al-Haytham hotel and took Mousa along with six other hotel employees to Battle Group Main camp, known as BG Main.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

Then, soldiers from the former Queen's Lancashire Regiment raided Basra's Ibn al-Haytham hotel and took Mousa along with six other hotel employees to Battle Group Main camp, known as BG Main.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

3. Muslim polymath Ibn al-Haytham 965-1039 for inventing the scientific method.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top five dead scientists: list 'em] Reference

10th-century Baghdad we find al-Haytham, whose explorations of optics helped lay the foundations for Newton's discoveries.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Ibn al-Haytham |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicole Oresme] Reference

Abu Ali al-Hasan, or, ibn al-Hasan, or, ibn al-Haytham, whatever transcription you fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deltoid] Reference