Ibn al-Haytham, First Scientist
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Ibn al-Haytham made massive contributions to the world’s understanding of light and vision through experiments that he did during a prolonged house arrest in the early 11th century. He also wrote about medicine, philosophy, astronomy, math and ethics.
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, |
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| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Frye. |
| 0:47.3 | We have gotten various requests over the last several months |
| 0:51.2 | to talk about people who discovered or accomplished something |
| 0:55.5 | during some kind of a pandemic or quarantine. |
| 0:58.4 | It's not surprising that we're getting requests like this. |
| 1:02.9 | By really coincidence, today's topic almost fits with that. |
| 1:08.1 | Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Hatham, |
| 1:11.5 | whose name has also been Latinized as Al-Hasan or Al-Hasan, |
| 1:16.5 | made massive contributions to the world's understanding |
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