“Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one's eyes.[27] He was also the first to demonstrate that vision occurs in the brain, rather than in the eyes.[28] Ibn al-Haytham was an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be supported by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence—an early pioneer in the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.” — Wiki
Alhazan taught at an academy that had an in depth synthesis of mathematics, philosophy, chemistry, physics, spirituality and religion, astronomy, and so on. We should all strive to be as forward thinking.
Also, a major buster of the myth of the Eurocentric claim on the sciences.