Al-Biruni

Born

September 4, 973

Died

December 9, 1048 (aged 75)

Known as

philosopher, chemist, geographer, polymath, mathematician, cartographer

Abu Reyhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as Biruni (بیرونی), was a Khwarazmian Iranian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age. Well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy and the natural sciences, he also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist, and has been described as the first anthropologist and a founding figure in comparative religion, geodesy and Indology.

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