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Al-Biruni (about 1,000 years ago) measured📏📐 the circumference of the Earth🌍 with an accuracy of 99.7% compared to today’s accepted value.
Google Doodle celebrates the 115th birthday of Hamed Gahar, Egyptian scientist, marine biologist and TV host. He is considered the founding father of oceanography in Egypt and the Arab world, and hosted an educational show called “Sea World” for 18 years.
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Illustrious Muslim scientists of the golden age, particularly Ibn Al-Haytham (965-1040) and Al-Biruni (973-1048), insisted on natural explanations for the phenomena they were attempting to explain.
Al-Biruni (about 1,000 years ago) measured📏📐 the circumference of the Earth🌍 with an accuracy of 99.7% compared to today’s accepted value.
By focusing attention, observation, and extensive thought on astronomical phenomena, one is able to prove the unicity of God and to recognize the extent of the Creator’s might as well as His wide wisdom and delicate design.
—Al-Battani (850-929), illustrious Muslim astronomer.
Muslim Astronomer Fátima of Madrid (10th-century)👇
She spent most of her life in Córdoba, the world-leading center for all knowledge at the time🌍🎓.
Fátima corrected "The Astronomical Tables of Al-Khawarizmi". She also worked on calendars, eclipses and Moon visibility🌒…
The Fourier transform is named after Joseph Fourier. Fourier lived at the time of Napoleon. In fact, he worked for Napoleon. And it turns out that he was actually obsessed with heat. He was very interested in knowing how heat propagated through materials of different shapes.
By focusing attention, observation, and extensive thought on astronomical phenomena, one is able to prove the unicity of God and to recognize the extent of the Creator’s might as well as His wide wisdom and delicate design.
—Al-Battani (850-929), illustrious Muslim astronomer.
Al-Biruni (about 1,000 years ago) measured📏📐 the circumference of the Earth🌍 with an accuracy of 99.7% compared to today’s accepted value.
Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850) emphasised that he wrote his algebra book to serve the practical needs of the people concerning the matters of inheritance, legacies, partition, law suits and commerce. He considered his work as worship to God.