EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was born in Khwarazm, a region adjoining the Aral Sea now known as Karakalpakstan. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -al-Bīrūnī, in full Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī, (born Sept. 4, 973 ce, Khwārezm, Khorāsān [now in Uzbekistan]-died c. 1052, Ghazna [now Ghaznī, Afg.), Muslim astronomer, mathematician, ethnographist, anthropologist, historian, and geographer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist. [9] He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.