EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -AL-BERUNI (AD 973-1048) was a famous scientist of the Islamic world. He was a prolific writer who wrote more than 150 books on various aspects of life, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, geography, cosmology, archaeology, history, geology, biology, chemistry, culture, civilisation and comparative religion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Important contributions to geodesy and geography were also made by al-Biruni. He introduced techniques to measure the earth and distances on it using triangulation. He found the radius of the earth to be 6339. 6 km, a value not obtained in the West until the 16th century (see [50]).

Detailed explanation-3: -Kitab ul-Hind is the famous book written by the scholar Al-Biruni. Al-Biruni was a Persian historian, mathematician, and astronomer.

Detailed explanation-4: -l-Biruni was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, studying physics and natural sciences too. He was the first able to obtain a simple formula for measuring the Earth’s radius. Moreover, he thought possible the Earth to revolve around the Sun and developed the idea the geological eras succeed one another [3].

Detailed explanation-5: -Al-Biruni was a traveller from Uzbekistan thousands of years ago. He wrote about the various skills of people of India for making ponds and different techniques of water conservation in ancient India.