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||901 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 826)
File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.


||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)
||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)

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