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  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, polymath, 1201-12743
  • Apollonius, of Perga, mathematician, 200 BC1
  • Archimedes, c 250 BC-212 BC1
  • Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/897707811
  • Birjandī, ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, astronomer, d 1525 or 261
  • Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, polymath scientist and translator, 973?-10481
  • Diyānat Khān, Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī, courtier and administrator, d 1672/731
  • Euclid, fl 300 BC1
  • Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, d 15421
  • Hastings, Warren, governor-general of Bengal, 1732-18181
  • Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, mathemetician, fl 11211
  • Kircher, Athanasius, Jesuit polymath, 1602-16801
  • Marrākushī, Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan, astronomer, fl 2nd half of the 13th century1
  • Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd, Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, 1236?-1310?1
  • Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʿAlī, fl 17451
  • Ulugh Beg, Sultan, astronomer, mathematician, 1394-14491
  • Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá, astronomer, d 11001
  • al-Nahī, ʿAbd al-Karīm, scribe, fl 16561
  • Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, mathematician and astronomer, c 1135-12131
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Mathematician, astronomer, religious scholar, poet, philanthropist, 1547-1621, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/270522621
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