Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics
- Period
- 1011–1021
- Region
- Africa
- Category
- Science
The Book of Optics is a seven-volume treatise on optics and other fields of study composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen.
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- AD 639–642Arab conquest of Egypt
- AD 691Completion of the Dome of the Rock
- AD 970Al-Azhar University
- 1011–1021Ibn al-Haytham's Book of OpticsThis page
- 1095–1291Crusades
- 1260Battle of Ain Jalut
- 1516–1517Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)
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- 3000–2600 BCEarly Dynastic Period of Egypt
- 2500–2300 BCOld Kingdom of Egypt
- 2200–2100 BCLower Egypt
- 2000–1700 BCMiddle Kingdom of Egypt
- 1600 BCHyksos
- 1500–850 BCEgyptian Empire
- 800–750 BCTwenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
- 700 BCKingdom of Kush
- 650 BCAssyrian Egypt
- 600–550 BCTwenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
- 500–400 BCAchaemenid Empire
- 350 BCThirtieth Dynasty of Egypt
- 300–50 BCPtolemaic Kingdom
- AD 1–375Roman Empire
- AD 400–600Byzantine Empire
- AD 625Sasanian Empire
- AD 650Rashidun Caliphate