Brilliant Biruni: A Life Story of Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810862432)

Abu Raihan Biruni (973-1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the existence of landmasses (North and South America) on the opposite side of the Earth and calculating the radius of the Earth five centuries before the European Renaissance. In Brilliant Biruni, Mohammad S. Kamiar presents the life of one of the greatest scholars in the history of the world: the story of a boy who became Biruni.

Author: M. Kamiar
ISBN-10: 0810862433
ISBN-13: 9780810862432
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2008
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.70d