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Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; / æ l ˈ h æ z ən /; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 – c. 1040) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India.
Rashidun army. Years of service. 629–636. Battles/wars. Battle of Sanita al-Uqab (634) Battle of Ajnadayn (634) Battle of Yarmuk (636) Khawla bint al-Azwar ( Arabic: خولة بنت الازور; died 639), was an Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate. She played a major role in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and ...
Owls are top predators on the food chain, so to see one interact so gently with a little parakeet warmed my heart. The video starts by showing us the parakeet and owl sitting together on top of a ...
The star and crescent symbol used in the minted coins of the Sassanian Empire from the 3rd century until the 7th century. This coin was coined under Ardashir III. The Adoration of the Magi by Stephan Lochner; on the left, the crescent and star is depicted in the flag of representatives of Byzantium. The conjoined representation of a crescent ...
The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [ 3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.
t. e. The Sun and Moon allegory is used to depict a medieval political theory of hierocracy which submits the secular power to the spiritual power, stating that the Bishop of Rome is like the Sun, the only source of his own light, while the Emperor is like the Moon, which merely reflects lights and has no value without the Sun.
Di Timur Matahari (phrasal translation: To The East of the Morning Sun) is a 2012 Indonesian film directed by Ari "Ale" Sihasale and starring Laura Basuki and Lukman Sardi. Shot in Tioh, Lanny Jaya , Papua , over a period of one month, it follows young Papuan children as they struggle to learn despite an ongoing tribal war.