What was al-biruni famous for

Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī'^{[n 1]} (born 5 September 973 in Kath, Khwarezm, died in the year 13 December 1048 in Ghazni),^[1] known as Alberonius in Latin and Al-Biruni in English,^[2] was a Persian^[3]-Chorasmian^[4][5]Muslim scholar and polymath of the 11th century.

Al-Biruni was one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era and was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences. He did a lot of work as a historian, chronologist and linguist.^[5]

Al-Biruni Media

• An annotated diagram explaining the phases of the moon from one of al-Biruni's astronomical works.

  Sun (far right) – Earth (far left) and Lunar phases

• Four directions and Political divisions of Iran by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī

• Diagram illustrating a method proposed and used by Al-Biruni to estimate the radius and circumference of the Earth

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