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Born c.64 BCE
Died After 21 • Amasya • Turkey
Notable Works “Geography” • “Historical Sketches”
Subjects Of Study geography

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Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
Kâtip Çelebi
Turkish historian
Wei Yuan
Chinese historian
al-Hamdānī
Arab author
André Duchesne, detail from an engraving
André Duchesne
French historian
Alexander Polyhistor
Roman philosopher, geographer, and historian
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides
Greek historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius
Greek historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Arrian
Greek historian
Timaeus
Greek historian
Ephorus
Greek historian
Theopompus of Chios
Greek historian
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
Hellanicus of Lesbos
Greek historian
Diodorus Siculus
Greek historian

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