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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ibn-al-Haitham was the first scientist to elaborate ____ laws of reflection of light.
A
5
B
4
C
3
D
2
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alhazen was the first physicist to give complete statement of the law of reflection. He was first to state that the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface all lie in a same plane perpendicular to reflecting plane.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ibn al-Haytham is considered by some to be the founder of psychophysics and experimental psychology, for his pioneering work on the psychology of visual perception.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ibn al Haytham-The First Scientist-Alhazen Biography. Known in the West as Alhazen, Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham was the first person to test hypotheses with verifiable experiments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abu Ali al-Hasan (Alhazen) (965-1039 AD) was a Muslim mathematician and astronomer born in Basra. He made numerous discoveries in optics, astronomy, and mathematics, and wrote commentaries on Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Euclid. He also wrote on methods of discovery.

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