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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Ibn al-Haytham, The First Scientist

27-Aug-07

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was a Muslim polymath who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, visual perception, and science in general with [...]

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Scientists History

27-Aug-07

A scientific method including experimentation was first used by the Iraqi physicist and polymath Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), circa 1000 AD, in his Book of Optics, and he has been described as the “first scientist” for this reason.
There are notable examples of people who have moved back and forth among disciplines. A number of early scientists [...]

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What is Scientist?

27-Aug-07

A scientist uses the scientific method to do research. William Whewell coined the word in 1833.[1] Before that scientists were termed “natural philosophers” or “men of science”.
Scientists are generally motivated, often from childhood, by a desire to understand why the world is as we see it and how it came to be. They exhibit a [...]

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