Abu Zaid Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in Shamistiyan, in the Persian province of Balkh (now in Afghanistan), he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He was also the founder the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad.
Of the many books ascribed to him in the al-Fihrist by Ibn al-Nadim, one can note the excellency of mathematics; on certi...
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Abu Zaid Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in Shamistiyan, in the Persian province of Balkh (now in Afghanistan), he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He was also the founder the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad.
Of the many books ascribed to him in the al-Fihrist by Ibn al-Nadim, one can note the excellency of mathematics; on certitude in astrology. His Figures of the Climates (Suwar al-aqalim) consisted chiefly of geographical maps. He also wrote the medical and psychological work, Masalih al-Abdan wa al-Anfus (Sustenance for Body and Soul).
His Figures of the Climates (Suwar al-aqalim) consisted chiefly of geographical maps. It led to him founding the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. The geographers of this school also wrote extensively of the peoples, products, and customs of areas in the Muslim world, with little interest in the non-Muslim realms....
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