Abu rayhan al-biruni biography of george

He contributed to astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine and history. View seven larger pictures. The two major cities in this region were Kath and Jurjaniyya. Al-Biruni was born near Kath and the town were he was born is today called Biruni after the great scholar. He lived both in Kath and in Jurjaniyya as he grew up and we know that he began studies at a very early age under the famous astronomer and mathematician Abu Nasr Mansur.

Certainly by the age of seventeen al-Biruni was engaged in serious scientific work for it was in that he computed the latitude of Kath by observing the maximum altitude of the sun.

Al-biruni death

Other work which al-Biruni undertook as a young man was more theoretical. Before when he was 22 years old he had written a number of short works. One which has survived is his Cartography which is a work on map projections. As well as describing his own projection of a hemisphere onto a plane, al-Biruni showed that by the age of 22 he was already extremely well read for he had studied a wide selection of map projections invented by others and he discusses them in the treatise.

The comparatively quiet life that al-Biruni led up to this point was to come to a sudden end.