Born in Basra, al-Haytham was a preeminent thinker of his age.

出生于巴士拉的阿·哈什姆是那个时代的思想先驱者。

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For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.

BBC: The 'first true scientist'