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1000s (decade)

Decade

Decade

The 1000s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1000, and ended on December 31, 1009.

Science and technology

  • The scientific achievements of the Islamic civilization reach their zenith. Major works from this decade include Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)'s Book of Optics, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)'s 30-volume medical encyclopedia, the Al-Tasrif.
  • Other significant contributions to scientific and mathematical understanding were made by Avicenna, who would later publish influential works on medicine, Persian Muslim polymath and scientist Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Arab Egyptian Muslim mathematician and astronomer Ibn Yunus, Persian Muslim physicist and mathematician Abu Sahl al-Quhi (Kuhi) and Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi.
  • The Law of sines is discovered by Muslim mathematicians.
  • Bell foundry is founded in Italy.
  • Gunpowder is invented in China.

Significant people

  • Abd al-Rahman Ibn Yunus
  • Al-Qadir caliph of Baghdad
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
  • Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
  • Abu Nasr Mansur
  • Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
  • Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham)
  • Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
  • Basil II
  • Boleslaus I of Poland
  • Brian Boru
  • Bruno of Querfurt
  • Robert II of France
  • Robert Guiscard
  • Roger I of Sicily
  • Sancho III of Navarre
  • Stephen I of Hungary
  • Sweyn I of Denmark
  • Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria

References

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