Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

850–934

Persian polymath

architect · mathematician · physicist

Born in Balkh

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• Alfred the Great (849–899)
• Abu Bakr al-Razi (866–925)
• Farabi (870–951)
• Otto I the Great (912–973)

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