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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) - The Father of Modern Medicine

10-Sep-07

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (c. 980 in Afshana near Bukhara, Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan), also known by his Latinized name Avicenna (Gr. Αβιτξιανός), was a Persian Muslim polymath: an astronomer, chemist, logician, mathematician, physicist, poet, scientist, theologian, statesman, soldier, and foremost physician and philosopher of his time.
He wrote some 450 [...]

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Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni - The Father of Indology

10-Sep-07

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (September 15, 973 in Kath, Khwarezm – December 13, 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian Muslim polymath of the 11th century, whose experiments and discoveries were as significant and diverse as those of Leonardo da Vinci or Galileo, five hundred years before the Renaissance; al-Biruni was well-known in the [...]

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Ibn al-Haytham, The First Scientist

27-Aug-07

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was a Muslim polymath who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, visual perception, and science in general with [...]

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