Muslim Contributions to Chemistry

  • 997 BCE

    Abu Wafa Muhammad al-Buzanji

    he took part in an experiment to find out the difference in local time between his location and that of part of Uzbekistian
  • 925 BCE

    Al-Razi

    He invent soap bars and sublimation
  • 900 BCE

    Abu Abdullah al- Battani

    al-Battānī's contribution to astronomy was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds, which is only 2 minutes and 22 seconds off.
  • 873 BCE

    Al-Kindi

    He was the first to refute the study of traditional alchemy and the theory of the transmutation of metals into more precious metals
  • 830 BCE

    Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi

    Muhammad and few others were were first to map the world.
  • 805 BCE

    Al - Sadiq

    developed a particle theory
  • 1015

    Al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham

    Al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham invented the Book of Optics
  • 1414

    Al-Kashi

    invented the Plate of Conjunctions, an analog computing instrument used to determine the time of day at which planetary conjunctions