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  • Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/8977078110
  • ʿImād al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd, 16th century5
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-12744
  • Archimedes, c 250 BC-212 BC2
  • Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, polymath scientist and translator, 973?-10482
  • Diyānat Khān, Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī, courtier and administrator, d 1672/732
  • Tafrishī, Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammadshāh, scribe, mathematician, fl 1348-13502
  • Yazdī, Qāz̤ī ibn Muḥammad, d 1664 or 16652
  • Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī, 940-9981
  • Apollonius, of Perga, mathematician, 200 BC1
  • Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar, d 12651
  • Birjandī, ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, astronomer, d 1525 or 261
  • Euclid, fl 300 BC1
  • Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, d 15421
  • Hastings, Warren, governor-general of Bengal, 1732-18181
  • Hippocrates, 460-380 BC, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/2879847361
  • Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī, ʻUmar, d c 10581
  • Jurjānī, Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042-11371
  • Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, alchemist, 9th century-10th century1
  • Jūzjānī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, fl 11th century, http://viaf.org/viaf/638665...1
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