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Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī: Quick Facts

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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
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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
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Rūdakī
Persian poet
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
Indian poet
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Engraving of six astronomers, with Hipparchus seated at center and, from left to right, Galileo, Johannes Hevelius, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Ptolemy standing, each holding scientific instruments.
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist

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