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Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
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Also Known As Shaykh Bahāʾī
Born March 20, 1546 • Syria
Died August 20, 1622 (aged 76) • Iran
Notable Works “Nan u-halwa”
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence
Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
Bahar, Muhammad Taqi
Muḥammad Taqī Bahār
Iranian author
Rūdakī
Persian poet
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer

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