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  • Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/8977078199
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-127438
  • Alhazen, 965-103922
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Mathematician, astronomer, religious scholar, poet, philanthropist, 1547-1621, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/2705226219
  • Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873, http://viaf.org/viaf/1969062416
  • Hippocrates, 460-380 BC, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/28798473615
  • Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, Translator, mathematician, d 90115
  • Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 16814
  • Euclid, fl 300 BC13
  • Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC12
  • Galenus, Claudius, called Galen of Pergamon, physician and philosopher, c 0129-c 0216, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/4429917511
  • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī [Rhazes], Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist, c 0865-c 0925, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/9515409310
  • Hermes Trismegistus, Legendary Hellenistic founder of Hermeticism, http://isni.org/isni/000000...10
  • Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī, physician, d 122210
  • Ibn al-Nafīs, ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, physician, 1210?-12889
  • Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd, Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, 1236?-1310?9
  • Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, astronomer, mathematician, born 14239
  • Ibn al-Bannā’, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, mathemetician, astronomer, 1256-13218
  • Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d 1328 or 13298
  • Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, translator, physician, c 820-c 9128
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