some information about ancient explorers
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| Albayruwni | show 🗑
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| Ahmed Ebn Majed | show 🗑
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| show | made a famous world map. Believed the geocentric theory. Spent most of his life in Egypt.
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| show | Used a Globe made by Almassoudi for the king of Sicili to locate and "discover" America (Almariqa on the Arabic map). Lead four sea voyages including one to Almariqa (America), his ships adopted hull design of Arabic ocean class design of the Omanis.
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| show | introduced the heliocentric theory to Europe after reading writings of Ebn Shatir of Damascus. Put on trial by the Church.
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| show | Drew a modern world map and therefore raised the standards of map making.
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| show | Designer of the world's first solar year-round-clock (still standing). His writings about astronomy influnced Copernicus. Foremost maker of Mechanical clocks in his time. Lived in Damascus during the early Middle Ages.
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| show | Invented Arabic numerals, Algorithims, & basics of Calculus. Made the worlds first Earth Globe.
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| Ebn Sina (Avicina) | show 🗑
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| show | Real inventor of the mechanical clock. Lived in Baghdad during the Abbas Caliphs. The Caliph Aaron Alrasheed sent one of his clocks as a gift to Charlmagn king of Germany; who thought it was haunted when it started ticking.
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| show | Most famous Muslim founder of modern Medicine. Doctor & Philosopher. Wrote 100's of volumes in various sciences & the humanities.
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| show | Founder of Philosophy as a science. Most famous of his works is "Almuqademah", which is a long introduction to philosophy.
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| Jaber Ebn Hyan (Algebra) | show 🗑
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| show | First doctor to discover & make medically accurate diagram of the "Minor Blood Circuit" in the human body. Lived in Morocco.
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