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Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics Conformed political and anthropological applications ofThis fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical astronomy, etc. This book includes seven main works of Ibn al Haytham (Alhazen) and of two of his predecessors, Thbit ibn Qurra and al Sijz: The circle, its transformations and its