Being a polyglot, Al-Biruni mastered Arabic, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit. This linguistic prowess granted him access to the ancient knowledge of these remarkable civilizations. His intellectual pursuits were nearly boundless, encompassing alchemy and astronomy. He was an encyclopedist and historian,...
My favourite scientist is Zhang Heng ,who was a famous Chinese astronomer and geographer.Zhang Heng lived from AD78 to 139.When young ,he was interested in stars and often asked curious of his grand-parents ,who lived with him .Zhang Heng built a model ,which could show how stars move ...
Constantin Carathéodory (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of...
Being a polyglot, Al-Biruni mastered Arabic, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit. This linguistic prowess granted him access to the ancient knowledge of these remarkable civilizations. His intellectual pursuits were nearly boundless, encompassing alchemy and astronomy. He was an encyclopedist and historian, ...
Paul Kalas Astronomer Paul Kalas (born August 13, 1967) is a Greek American astronomer known for his discoveries of debris disks around stars. Kalas led a team of scientists to obtain the first visible-light images of an extrasolar planet with orbital motion around the star Fomalhaut, at a...
Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 – March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian. His most influential books are considered to be A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century and The Balkans since 1453. He was one of the very first historians to challenge Orientalist views of the ...
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era. From 1956 to 1961 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford; his lectures were popular with students and faculty, and served as the basis for...
An Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who flourished in Alexandria during the 2nd century ce. In several fields his writings represent the culminating achievement of Greco-Roman...