Who Was Alive

Ibn al-Haytham

Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer

Born c. AD 965 · died 1039

Who was alive at the same time as Ibn al-Haytham?

  1. Otto I the Great
  2. Ferdowsi
  3. Ibn al-Haytham
  4. Leif Erikson
  5. Al-Biruni
  6. Avicenna
  7. William the Conqueror
  8. Anselm of Canterbury
  9. Urban II
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When Ibn al-Haytham died, Al-Biruni was 65 or 66.

Born during Ibn al-Haytham’s lifetime: Avicenna, William the Conqueror, Al-Biruni, Leif Erikson, Urban II and Anselm of Canterbury.

Not quite contemporaries: Omar Khayyám was born 6 years after Ibn al-Haytham died, Al-Ghazali was born 14 years after Ibn al-Haytham died and Farabi died 12 years before Ibn al-Haytham was born.

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