AL-BIRUNI I NJEGOVI RADOVI IZ FIZIKE
AL-BIRUNI AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IN PHYSICS

Summary/Abstract: In this article author presents Al-Biruni, who is regarded as the most original and profound scholar of the Islamic era. He was born in Kath in todays Uzbekistan. He wrote over 140 works in various fields: astronomy, mechanics, geometry, history, jurisprudence and so on. He is considered to be the “father of geodesy”. From his remarkable opus we here bring some of his research work in hydrostatics and glimpses of some of his works in physical geography.

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