For those of you interested in our workshop: Sightseeing in Egypt with Ibn al Haytham, watch this video about his cool experiments with Light and his Camera Obscura:
Scientist Adam Hart-Davis: Taking a picture of a castle using a giant medieval 'shed' camera 3:00 - 5:31
Scientist Ibn al Haytham: Taking a picture of a mosque using a giant medieval 'tent' camera
Did you know?
- There's a great fictionalised story called Ibn Al Haytham & The Mad Caliph
- One of the craters on the moon, 'Alhazen' is named after Ibn al Haytham?
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