Daily conversations   Food & Restaurant   Travel & Car   Family   Home   Occupations   Kitchen   Week days & Seasons   School   Numbers   Colours   Parts of human body   Things   Persian language   Persian alphabet   Persian grammar   Persian Music   Persian foods   Persian poems   Iranian scientists   English words of Persian origin   Free Downloads   Support   Feedback   Upload your video   Search	Category  »  Iranian scientists                                  Khazeni, Abolfath, physicist Abol-fath al-Khazeni, was a 12th century Persian physicist and engineer from Khorasan. He wrote the most important and comprehensive work on Mechanics in The Middle Ages, the Kitab Mizan al-Hikma, ("The balance of wisdom"). Here, he gives a history of statics and hydrostatics with rigorous commentaries on the works of his predecessors, including Archimedes, Euclid, Menelaus, Pappus of Alexandria, al-Biruni, and Khayyam. Although he acknowledges the work of these scholars, there is no doubt that he made significant contributions of his own. The work is divided into 8 treatises on center of gravity, density, specific weight (something carried out by Robert Boyle centuries later), and scales and balances. Source: wikipedia.org Previous Next Related links: Abu Wafa Buzjani, mathematician. Al-Qumri, a Persian physician. Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn, physician Esfarayeni, physician Ghazzali (Algazel), philosopher Add this page to Your Favorites   Previous Next
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