Arab Astronomers The Arab astronomers, Al-Battani, Al-Biruni and Umar Al-Khayyam are modern reminders of Arab contributions to astronomy with Arabic named stars; Acrab, Aldebaran, Algedi, Algul, Altair,...
Ibn-Rushd was born in Cordoba in 1126, an Aristotelian philosopher, astronomer and court physician, he dominated European thought from the twelfth to the end of the sixteenth centuries.