Ibn Haitham

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• The Invention of the Camera
• (Ibn al Haytham)

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• The camera is one of the most powerful
  instruments ever invented.

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• Still photographs and moving pictures have
  provided man the ability to record and display
  images of every kind - from the first few cells
  of a human embryo to galaxies, billions of light
  years away.

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• But did you know that the principles, on which
  all cameras are based, were laid down around one
  thousand years ago by the Muslim scientist and
  philosopher, Ibn Al-Haytham?

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Ibn al Haytham

• was born in Basra

• died in Cairo in 1039 C.E

• He is the most outstanding physicist of the
  Middle Ages and wrote over two hundred scientific
  works.

• his best-known and most influential work in
  Europe was the Optics

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• It was Ibn Al-Haytham who first discovered that
  light travels in straight lines.

• In refraction his outstanding contribution was
  the application of the rectangle of velocities at
  the surface of refraction, six centuries before
  Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).

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Ibn al Haytham

• A darkroom, was the prototype of the modern
  photographic camera.
• It worked on the principle that rays of light,
  reflected from any illuminated object will pass
  through a tiny hole in a dark room and project
  the image of the object upside-down on a wall
  inside the room. I
• t was a revolutionary invention in the field of
  optics. The term camera obscura was first used in
  Western scientific literature by Joseph Kepler
  (1571 - 1630).

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The Invention of the Camera

• Ibn-alHaytham and his student Kamal ad-Din teamed
  up making history when they first observed and
  record the camera obsecura phenomenon.

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The Invention of the Camera

• The obsecura phenomenon is literary defined by
  Webster's dictionary as "dark chamber." Usually
  is a cardboard with a tiny pinhole, that is the
  ground work of a camera.

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Refferences

• http//www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?a
  rticleID382
• http//www
• http//www.bradleysteffens.unimwebcenter.com/.isla
  mic-study.org/optics.htm

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