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Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965 - c. 1040) latinized as Alhazen - medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq: While aspects of the scientific method have been used and formalized for generations, it was Ibn al-Haytham that was the first put all the pieces of modern science together, most famously in his seven-volume treatise on optics Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), written from 1011 CE to 1021 CE. It was one of the earliest examples of understanding that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical reasoning.

He was born in Basra, southern Iraq c 965 CE (c 354 AH - on the Hijri calendar) and worked for most of his career in Cairo, during what was later called the Islamic Golden Age.

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