Al Biruni
Hallo
Für ein Projekt mit Jugendlichen suche ich nach
Persönlichkeiten der Weltgeschichte. Nun sollen das aber eher
unbekannte Menschen sein, also Menschen, die zwar auch
irgendwas Wichtiges / Einmaliges getan/erforscht/erreicht
haben, aber die nicht zwingend jeder kennt.
Zur Erklärung: ich möchte vermeiden, dass es Schlauberger
gibt, die alles über die Persönlichkeiten wissen und andere,
die dann dumm daneben stehen. Dann sollen lieber alle noch was
lernen!
Also: wen haltet ihr für unterschätzt? Wer war toll, kommt
aber nie in irgendwelchen Aufzählungen vor?
Al Biruni (Persien/Afghanistan, 973-1048)
==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Biruni
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He was a scientist and physicist, an anthropologist and
comparative sociologist, an astronomer and chemist, a
critic of alchemy and astrology, an encyclopedist and
historian, a geographer and traveler, a geodesist and
geologist, a mathematician, a pharmacist and psychologist,
an Islamic philosopher and theologian, and a scholar
and teacher.
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Siehe auch:
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In dynamics and kinematics, Biruni was the first to
realize that acceleration is connected with non-uniform
motion, which is part of Newton's second law of motion
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In the statics field of mechanics, the notion of specific
gravity originated with Biruni in his Ayin-Akbari.
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His estimate of 6,339.9 km for the Earth radius was
only 16.8 km less than the modern value of 6,356.7 km.
In contrast to his predecessors who measured the Earth's
circumference by sighting the Sun simultaneously from two
different locations, al-Biruni developed a new method of
using trigonometric calculations based on the angle
between a plain and mountain top
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usw.
wen’s interessiert:
(Did Al-Biruni discover evolution by natural selection 800 years before Darwin)
http://www.jstor.org/pss/226430
http://books.google.com/books?id=4o_YRth54O4C&pg=PA4…
(Antwort => nicht direkt, aber …)
Grüße
CMБ
