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Also Known As Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad ibn Dāʾūd al-Dīnawarī
Born c.815
Died c.895 or 902
Notable Works “Kitab an-nabat” • “al-akhbār aṭ-ṭiwāl”
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Sima Qian
Sima Qian
Chinese historian and scientist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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al-Hamdānī
Arab author
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George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
L'Obel, Matthias de
Matthias de L’Obel
Flemish-born physician and botanist
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
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Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer

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