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This document discusses the life and scientific contributions of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), an Arab scientist born in 965 CE in Basra. It summarizes that he birthed the scientific method and was the "Father of Modern Optics", discovering facts about light, vision and optics centuries before Newton. It describes how after failing an impossible task from the Fatimid Caliph, he feigned madness to escape punishment, using his house arrest to write his influential 7-volume treatise on optics. The year 2015 marked
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