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Uzbekistan: the essential lives

4 figures from Uzbekistan, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.

Measured Earth's radius to within 1% and wrote the first comparative anthropology of India.

Wrote the medical textbook that trained Europe's doctors until 1650.

Sultan-astronomer whose star catalogue stood unmatched for two centuries.