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  • Alhazen, 965-103918
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-127410
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Mathematician, astronomer, religious scholar, poet, philanthropist, 1547-1621, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/270522629
  • Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, Translator, mathematician, d 9016
  • Archimedes, c 250 BC-212 BC5
  • Euclid, fl 300 BC5
  • Hastings, Warren, governor-general of Bengal, 1732-18183
  • Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd, d 14363
  • Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, mathematician and astronomer, d ca 10003
  • Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, mathematician and astronomer, c 1135-12133
  • Autolycus, of Pitane, mathematician, fl 300 BC2
  • Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/897707812
  • Birjandī, ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, astronomer, d 1525 or 262
  • Jawnpūrī, ‘Abd al-Qādir, d 17872
  • Kūshyār, 9612
  • Landanī, Ḥusayn, d 17902
  • Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 1682
  • Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, translator, physician, c 820-c 9122
  • Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd, Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, 1236?-1310?2
  • Sahāranfūrī, ‘Iṣmat Allāh ibn A‘ẓam, Mathematician, astronomer, d ca 16902
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