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Abbasid scientists 9am group 5 - Coggle Diagram
Abbasid scientists
9am group 5
Al kindi (d c.873)
first great Arab philosopher
born in Basra and flourished in Baghdad
treated topics in mathematics, astrology, physics, music, medicine, pharmacy, geography.
Ibn Tariq (c. 796)
Persian origin
Siddhanta (the seminal Indian astronomical book) helped him transmit the Hindu numerals from India to Islamdom.
Astronomer
Al khwarizmi (d c.850)
Mathematician, Astronomer, Geographer
wrote a book on the hindi system of numeration
known as the father of algebra as he wrote the first book on algebra titled Kitab al-jabr wa-l-muqabala
Ibn Hayyan
Know as Geber in the West
The most famous alchemist of the abbasid period
"The Sulfur-Mercury Theory"
Theories on the effect of the magnetic force
Flourished in Kufa c. 776
Al-Jahiz (781 –868/869)
One of the most famous zoologists of pre modern times
Wrote Kitab al Hayawan (The Book of Animals)
Presented the concept of food
chains.
He was an Arab writer
Al Razi (923/924)
considered to be the greatest clinician of Islam and middle ages
Iranian physicist, physician and chemist
Al-Battani (929)
Worked in astronomical treatise with tables which remained influential until the time of Copernicus
astronomical observations of remarkable
range and accuracy
Ibn Sina (980-1037)
Al Mas'udi (896-956)
one of the greatest Arab historians and geographers
wrote " muruj al dhahab wa ma'adin aljawhar (the meadows of gold and the mines of gems) where he combined history and scientific geography for the first time.
most famous work: the canon of medicine, an encyclopedia on medical theories
encyclopedist, philosopher, physician, mathematician, astronomer
one of the greatest scientists and philosophers in Islam
Ibrahim Alfazari (d. 777)
Mathematician and astronomer
The first to construct astrolobes
the author of a poem on astrology
translated the Indian astronomical text the Sindhind