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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 From Camels to Stars in the Middle East
- Season 1 Ibn Battuta’s Search for Knowledge
- Season 1 Arabian Nights Caliph: Harun al-Rashid
- Season 1 The Arab World's Greatest Writer al-Jahiz
- Season 1 Algebra, Algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi
- Season 1 Baghdad's House of Wisdom
- Season 1 Muhammad, the Hadith, and Imam Bukhari
- Season 1 Interpreting and Defending the Quran
- Season 1 The Arab Herodotus al-Masudi
- Season 1 Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of Optics
- Season 1 Master Muslim Scholar: al-Biruni
- Season 1 Astronomy in the Islamic Golden Age
- Season 1 Medieval Muslim Medicine and Hospitals
- Season 1 Alchemistry and Chemistry in Early Baghdad
- Season 1 The Fertile Crescent, Water, and al-Jazari
- Season 1 Jewish Scholar in Cairo Moses Maimonides
- Season 1 The Banu Musa's Inventions and Automatons
- Season 1 Mosques, Architecture, and Gothic Revival
- Season 1 Arabic Verse, Love Poetry, and Wine Songs
- Season 1 Medieval Mastermind Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Season 1 Entertaining in the Time of the Abbasids
- Season 1 Calligraphy, Carpets, and the Arabic Arts
- Season 1 When Did the Islamic Golden Age End
- Season 1 Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Fall of Empire
Islamic Golden Age - Season 1 Episode 10 Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of Optics
0.00 48 minutes Al-Haytham's seven-volume Book of Optics is one of the most fascinating works of scientific enquiry in the Golden Age. After reviewing the wider context of Cairo in the 10th century, delve into al-Haytham's experimentation with optics and the eye. Find out why many modern scholars have called him the world's first true scientist.
