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1000s (decade)
Science and technology
The
scientific achievements
of the
Islamic civilization
reach their zenith. Major works from this decade include
Ibn al-Haytham
(Alhacen)'s
Book of Optics
,
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
(Abulcasis)'s 30-volume medical encyclopedia, the
Al-Tasrif
.
Other significant contributions to scientific and mathematical understanding were made by
Avicenna
, who would later publish influential works on medicine, Persian Muslim polymath and scientist
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
, Arab
Egyptian
Muslim mathematician
and
astronomer
Ibn Yunus
, Persian Muslim physicist and mathematician
Abu Sahl al-Quhi
(Kuhi) and Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician,
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
.
The
Law of sines
is discovered by
Muslim mathematicians
.
Bell
foundry
is founded in
Italy
.
Gunpowder
is invented in
China
.
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