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"This new coffee table edition of Steffens’s biography of Ibn al-Haytham is a thing of beauty, with stunning photographs and illustrations adding to the scholarly yet accessible biographical text." —Jim Al-Khalili, physicist, author, and BBC host   "A fantastic book, written in a brilliant manner." —Haitham Hamad "A great read." —Brian Francis Neary

Ibn al Haytham - The First Scientist - Alhazen Biography 

Known in the West as Alhazen, Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al- Hasan ibn al-Haytham was the first person to test hypotheses with verifiable experiments.

Some 200 years later, European scholars to began employing his methodology after reading a Latin translation of his massive study of light and vision, Kitâb al-Manâzir (The Book of Optics).

Born in Basra in 965, Ibn al-Haytham first studied theology, trying unsuccessfully to resolve the differences between t