AlBiruni

Al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the Founder of Indology, Father of Comparative Religion, Father of modern geodesy, and the first anthropologist. He contributed to physics, mathematics, astronomy, geography, pharmacology, mineralogy, history, chronology, religion, and Ideology. He measured the earth’s radius from Nandana … Read more

Al-Biruni discovered the gravity of the earth before Newton….

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Al-Biruni discovered the gravity of the earth before Newton. He said long time before Newton that objects fall on the ground due to the gravitational force concentrated in it. And it was not, in fact, the apple that fell from the tree that told Newton about gravity, but the books of Ibn al-Haytham who was … Read more

Al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the Founder of Indology, Father of Comparative Religion, Father of modern Geodesy, and the first Anthropologist. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of … Read more