Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,... More
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Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig... More
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Ibn Al-Shatir

Ibn Al-Shatir

male, deceased (1375)
Ibn al-Shatir was an Arab Islamic astronomer. He worked as "muwaqqit" (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and cons... More
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Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

male, deceased (1449)
Ulugh Beg (c1393 or 1394 in Sultaniyeh (Persia) - October 27, 1449) was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His... More
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Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al... More
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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the... More
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Taqi Al-Din

Taqi Al-Din

male, deceased (1585)
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi was a major Muslim scientist and inventor. He is the author of several texts on astronomy,... More
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Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

male, deceased (1048)
"'"' (September 15 973 in Kath, Khwarezm - December 13 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian Muslim universal genius of the 11th Century, whose experiments... More
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Muhammad Ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizmī

male, deceased (850)
"'"' was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died a... More
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Abu Nasr Mansur

Abu Nasr Mansur

male, deceased (1036)
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq (c. 960 - 1036) was a Muslim mathematician. He is well known for discovering the sine law. Abu Nasr Mansur was... More
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