Brilliant Biruni : a life story of Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad /
Abu Raihan Biruni (973-1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the existence of landmasses (North and South America) on the opposite side of the Earth and calculating the radius of the Earth five centuries before the European Renaissance. In Brilliant Biru...
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Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |