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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
Era
6 figures
Sun Tzu
544 BCE – 496 BCEThe Art of War is still on military and business curricula worldwide.
China·Philosophy · History
Al-Biruni
973 – 1048Measured Earth's radius to within 1% and wrote the first comparative anthropology of India.
Uzbekistan·Astronomy · Mathematics · History
Avicenna's student Al-Juzjani
980 – 1070Preserved and completed Ibn Sina's corpus.
Afghanistan·Medicine · History
Shen Kuo
1031 – 1095Described the magnetic compass and deduced geological deep time.
China·Astronomy · Engineering · History
Ho Chi Minh
1890 – 1969Wrote Vietnam's declaration of independence quoting Jefferson.
Vietnam·Philosophy · History
B. R. Ambedkar
1891 – 1956Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.
India·Economics · Philosophy · History