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The genius of the 11th veka

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni - this name is not known to each family in the West. But it should be known. The phenomenal intelligence scholar from Central Asia and its breathtaking discoveries have put him in the pantheon of scientific genius on a par with Aristotle, Galileo and Newton.

This man's life was difficult, to say the least. He never knew his father, and the region in which he lived, was devastated during the long war, and Biruni was often forced to wander from place to place, trying to avoid conflict. Despite this, he managed to give the world the amazing 146 scientific papers. In its original form to have survived, only 22 of them, however, and more than enough to confirm his genius.

Hundreds of years before Copernicus Biruni showed that it is the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa. Noting that the fossils are always found in certain mountains, he suggested that they were once under water, and on the surface appeared because of the shift of tectonic plates. Astrological horoscope he considered "magic" than the won appreciation, even modern skeptics, and his work on the specific gravity was truly innovative.



But the biggest success Biruni relate to his work on the longitude and latitude. He was from an early age interested in geography, which prompted him to calculate the precise coordinates of the different cities. In the future, these methods it used to calculate the circumference of the Earth, and it was an unprecedented case, which occurred long before the Renaissance. The scientist developed this technique, using spherical trigonometry, the sines and the law, and as a result it became more precise calculation. The circumference of the Earth calculated Biruni, only 17 km from the calculations of different modern scientists. When he learned the size of the Earth, he could not help noticing that Asia, Africa and Europe account for only a small part of the world, in the best case - two-fifths. And what about the remaining three-fifths?



Biruni rejected the commonly held view that the world consists only of a single continent surrounded by ocean. He was convinced that the ocean has a different continent, with similar climates, and fit for human life. Most of his discoveries Biruni made in the fortress, which was located in what is now Pakistan, and he ran away from one particularly brutal local warlord. The castle north of Islamabad modern genius of the 11th century realized that the people of the Old World are not alone on this planet.

via factroom.ru