Al-Biruni
973–c. 1050
Persian polymath who wrote on astronomy, geography and India.
Al-Biruni (973–c. 1050) was a scholar, born in Kath and died in Ghazni.
- Known as
- Scholar
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 973, Kath
- Died
- c. 1050, Ghazni
Alive at the same time as Al-Biruni
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- Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
- Murasaki Shikibu c. 973–c. 1014, novelist
- Avicenna c. 980–1037, philosopher and physician
- William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
- Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
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