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"Science has a huge influence in building bridges🌉 between cultures and religions."
– Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 🧪, 1999
“He who gets used to believing without proof has slipped out of his natural humanness.”
– Ibn Sina, al-Shaykh al-Ra'is, on the importance of requiring proof.
🎨Google Doodles celebrated Ibn Sina’s 1038th Birthday.
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 🌒…
Ibn Firnas' designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci’s hundreds of years later.
📸Artistic impressions of Abbas ibn Firnas and his successful 9th-century flight, 1001 Inventions.
Al-Razi, 9th-century polymath, known as:
👉"Hippocrates of the Arabs"
⚗️He made one of earliest serious attempts to classify the chemical elements 🧪,
⚗️was an early proponent of the scientific method,
⚗️and even carried out one of the first clinical trials.
“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-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.
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.
Ibn Sina, al-Shaykh al-Ra'is
🎨Google Doodles celebrated Ibn Sina’s 1038th Birthday.
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 🌒…