1021 ⟶ Ibn al-Haytham Completes *Book of Optics*
– Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) of Basra, Iraq writes his influen...
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➗ Al-Khwarizmi Completes His Treatise on Algebra
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī writes his treatise on Algebra The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.⟶
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Iraq📚 Establishment of the House of Wisdom and Al-Khwarizmi's Algebra
The House of Wisdom, a library and translation institute established in Baghdad by al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph, to transfer the knowledge of Greeks, Persians, Indians, etc. to the Muslim world. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, a book of algebra, is also written there by Al-Khwarizmi.⟶
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👓 Ibn al-Haytham's House Arrest and the Writing of *Book of Optics*
1021: Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), a famous Iraqi scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness in fear of angering the Egyptian caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and is kept under house arrest from 1011 to 1021. During this time, he writes his influential Book of Optics.⟶
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EgyptIraq🔭 Ibn al-Haytham Completes *Book of Optics*
– Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) of Basra, Iraq writes his influential Book of Optics from 1011 to 1021 (while he was under house arrest in Egypt),⟶
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