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Biruni  

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  • Abu ‘l-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, one of the greatest Muslim astronomers, geographers, and scientists, was an advocate of empirical science and a practitioner of the experimental and comparative methods. One of the most original and prolific medieval scientific writers in the natural sciences, al-Biruni was born in the city of Kat (now Biruni, in Uzbekistan), the ancient capital of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Biruni]

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