APPLICATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN THE STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF ABU RAYHAN AL-BIRUNI
Abstract
"The study of the scientific heritage of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973–1048) began in Europe in the nineteenth century. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the works of the scholar began to be published in Uzbekistan in the form of scientifically commented translations into Uzbek and Russian. These works continue to the present day. But at the same time, the development of IT technologies in the 21st century and their rapid penetration into various fields has not bypassed the studies in the field of history of science, in particular, al-Biruni’s works studies. To date, there are several sites in the world that collect information about research on the history of exact sciences. With the purpose of further development of Birunian studies in Uzbekistan, the al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan created the site heritageofberuni.uz. The difference of this site from others is that it provides scientific descriptions in English of about 200 manuscripts of al-Biruni's works. In the process of describing manuscripts from the libraries of Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Turkey, Iran and India, the peculiarities of these manuscripts were revealed, and a special collection of their electronic copies was created at the Institute"