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English noun: Alhacen | |||
| 1. | Alhacen (person) an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040) | ||
| Synonyms | Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, al-Haytham, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham | ||
| Instance hypernym | astronomer, mathematician, physicist, stargazer, uranologist | ||
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