• Al-Beruni was born in a small town Berun in present in Uzbekistan in 5 September 973 A.D and died in 13 December 1048 A.D Ghazni Afghanistan.
• He is father of comparative religion and modern geodesy (earth science, accurate measurement and understanding).
• In 1017 He travelled to India 🇮🇳, he studied the language, religion and philosophy of Hindus 🕉 and wrote a book in them "Tarrekh ul Hind", so He is called founder of Indology.
• He Rejected (refuted) many theories and define them from new direc-tion.
• He rejected the theory that earth is flat and practically proved that earth is round.
• He determined the densities of different substances.
• He wrote more than one hundred and fifty books on various subjects such as mathematics, physics, cosmology, geography, history culture and civilization, archaeology, comparative religious, geology chemistry and biology and many others.
• He gave the method of determining the longitude and latitude of a place.
• He also found densities on various metals.
• While he was in Pind Dadan in Pakistan, he determined the circumference of the earth by his own invented method.
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