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[David E Schafer]

Interesting references.  Thanks.  If anyone would like to read more about 
medieval Arabic scientists and their considerable influence on the West, I 
recommend an excellent new book in my library by Jim al-Khalili, "The House 
of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the 
Renaissance," published by Penguin.  The book has 16 chapters.  Chapter 11, 
"The Physicist," is devoted to al-Haytham.

David
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This might be interesting to some humanists:

The 'mad' Egyptian scholar who proved Aristotle wrong
http://tinyurl.com/5s82v9u

For more, and probably better, details on Ibn al-Haytham you may want
to look at

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/09/ibn-al-haytham-html


Tom Platt
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