Al-biruni inventions
Contribution of al-biruni.
Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni life and biography
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (ca.
Al-biruni education
), a Moslem astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and historian, was the most acute interpreter of India to Islam in the Middle Ages.
Al-Biruni was born near Kath in Khwarizm (now a part of Uzbekistan) on Sept.
4, His teacher in astronomy and mathematics was the eminent Abu Nasr Mansur, a member of the family then ruling at Kath. Al-Biruni made several observations with a meridian ring at Kath in his youth. In the attack on the ruler of Khwarizm by the ruler of Jurjaniya drove al-Biruni into exile, presumably to Rayy, where he discussed with the astronomer al-Khujandi the latter's observations with a mural sextant.
AlBiruni later wrote a treatise on this instrument and gave a detailed account of the observations in his Tahdid.
In al-Biruni returned to Kath, where he observed a lunar eclipse that Abu al-Wafa observed in Baghdad; on the basis of the time difference they determined the longitudinal difference bet
