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  • Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 1686
  • Alhazen, 965-10394
  • Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, Translator, mathematician, d 9013
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-12743
  • Theodosius, astronomer and mathematician of Bithynia, c 160-c 100 BC2
  • Aristarchus, of Samos, c 310-c 230 BC1
  • Autolycus, of Pitane, mathematician, fl 300 BC1
  • Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, polymath scientist and translator, 973?-10481
  • Ibn Maṭar, al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf, 786-8301
  • Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, Translator, 831?-910?1
  • Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d 1328 or 13291
  • Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, translator, physician, c 820-c 9121
  • Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd, Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, 1236?-1310?1
  • Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, astronomer, d 11001
  • Ṣūfī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Umar, Astronomer, 903-9861
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