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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 Biruni, Mohammad S. Kamiar presents the life of one of the greatest scholars in the history of the world: the story of a boy who became Biruni. From his boyhood home in the Village of Vasemereed to his finalresting place in the city of Ghazna, Afghanistan, Brilliant Biruni: The Story of Abu Rayhan Moha. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780810862449 0810862441 1282499343 9781282499348 9786612499340 6612499346 |