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al-Biruni
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Fixed the direction of Mecca so that Muslims everywhere could pray facing it.
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Omar Khayyam
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Developed a very precise calendar based off of earlier ones.
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al-Khwarizmi
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Borrowed the number 0 and system based on 10 from Indians and thus came to write: 'Hisab al-jabr' = 'the addition of one thing to another'
al-jabr = algebra. |
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Ibn Sina
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Wrote the "Canon of Medicine" that would be used for 600 years to come.
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Abbasid hospitals
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Were set up all over the empire, had medical students learn on the spot, and offered medical treatment to the poor and those that could not pay.
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