International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies
The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 is a global initiative to highlight the key role that light and optical technologies play in our daily lives and their importance for our future and for the sustainable development of the society in which we live.
Ibn Al Haithem:
Abou Ali El Hassen Ibn El Hassen Ibn El Haithem El Basri was born in 354 AH/965 in Basra in southern Iraq Known under the name of El Hassen Ibn El Haithem Sheikh El Bassra and his architect and under the Latin name Alhazen.
After acquiring a solid education in Arabic, he began to study philosophy and science and then specialized in physics, mathematics and astronomy.
Ibn Al-Haithem is an encyclopedic scholar who developed his genius in disciplines as varied as optics, physics, mathematics, medicine, astronomy and even psychology, all in a transversal manner. A controlled diversity of materials which so characterizes the scientists and scholars of the golden age of Muslim civilization, like his contemporaries Al-Biruni and Avicenna.
Described as one of the greatest physicists of all time, he had a significant influence on the invention of glasses, the camera, the telescope and the microscope. His precise description of the functioning of the eye allowed sciences such as ophthalmology and retinal surgery to grow considerably.
He rationalized the laws of the reflection of light on a surface (like that of a mirror), already stated by Ptolemy. He also confirmed the rectilinear propagation of light.
Ibn El Haithem died in Egypt in 430H/1040.
on the need to preserve the social values specific to parental relationships, on the expansion of the values of tolerance and communication and the rejection of deviant behavior such as violence and family breakdown and thus guarantee the transfer of all these values to future generations.
Ibn Al Haithem:
Abou Ali El Hassen Ibn El Hassen Ibn El Haithem El Basri was born in 354 AH/965 in Basra in southern Iraq Known under the name of El Hassen Ibn El Haithem Sheikh El Bassra and his architect and under the Latin name Alhazen.
After acquiring a solid education in Arabic, he began to study philosophy and science and then specialized in physics, mathematics and astronomy.
Ibn Al-Haithem is an encyclopedic scholar who developed his genius in disciplines as varied as optics, physics, mathematics, medicine, astronomy and even psychology, all in a transversal manner. A controlled diversity of materials which so characterizes the scientists and scholars of the golden age of Muslim civilization, like his contemporaries Al-Biruni and Avicenna.
Described as one of the greatest physicists of all time, he had a significant influence on the invention of glasses, the camera, the telescope and the microscope. His precise description of the functioning of the eye allowed sciences such as ophthalmology and retinal surgery to grow considerably.
He rationalized the laws of the reflection of light on a surface (like that of a mirror), already stated by Ptolemy. He also confirmed the rectilinear propagation of light.
Ibn El Haithem died in Egypt in 430H/1040.
on the need to preserve the social values specific to parental relationships, on the expansion of the values of tolerance and communication and the rejection of deviant behavior such as violence and family breakdown and thus guarantee the transfer of all these values to future generations.