Al-Saghani


Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 379-380 A.H/ 990 A.D.

History of science

Al-Asturlabi wrote some of the earliest comments on the history of science. These included the following comparison between the "ancients" and the "modern scholars" :