3 results for “polymath”

The life and achievements of al-Biruni in astronomy, mathematics, geography, and comparative religion, including his accurate measurement of the earth's circumf

The scholar of Cordoba who authored works on theology, jurisprudence, comparative religion, and love, and founded the Zahiri school's most systematic articulati

The 9th-century Andalusian polymath who made one of the earliest known attempts at controlled f...