Who was the courtier of Scientist Beruni?
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Abu Rehan Al-Biruni was the Courtier of the Scientist Beruni
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Abu Rehan al-Biruni (973-1048) was a distinguished scientist of Afghanistan in the 11th century. He is described as founder of Indology, father of geodesy, founder of the discipline of comparative religion , history of religion, history of science.and created hydrodynamics. He was Central Asia’s most astute student of societies, who founded the field of anthropology and pioneered the field of intercultural studies. He dabbled in the heliocentric and geocentric hypotheses.
He also studied the moon and its rotation and in the 18th century, Richard Dunthorne (1775) used his data to determine the acceleration of the moon. Six hundred years before Galileo, al-Biruni asserted that the earth rotates on its axis, unlike Galileo his ideas were accepted by religious scholars.