Timeline of Scientific Discoveries - 11th Century

11th Century

  • 1021 – Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics
  • 1020s – Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine
  • 1054 – Various Early Astronomers: Observe supernova (modern designation SN 1054), later correlated to the Crab Nebula.
  • Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī: beginning of Islamic astronomy and mechanics

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