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Al-Biruni estimated the size of the Earth using a mountain and some trigonometry, wrote one of the first careful studies of Indian society, and still found time for chronology, minerals, medicine and a famously blunt exchange of letters with Ibn Sina. He worked under Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, an uneasy partnership between a scholar and a conqueror. This book follows the scientist, the writer and the sceptic who tried to understand other cultures in their own words.
Every claim gets a Source Check: solid, likely, disputed or legend.
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