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    Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī (Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني), usually called al-Battānī, a name that was in the...
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    Al-Sabi of Al-Battani as adjusting coordinates for stars by 11 degrees and 10 minutes of arc to account for the difference between Al-Battani's time and Ptolemy's...
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    Abu al-Wafa' was the first to build a wall quadrant to observe the sky. It has been suggested that he was influenced by the works of al-Battani as the...
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  • 922) Al-Battani (d. 929) Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (d. 971) Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (d. 986) Al-Saghani (d. 990) Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī (d. 998) Abu Al-Fadl...
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    al-Zarqali's works. In his "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium", in the year 1530, Nicolaus Copernicus quotes the works of al-Zarqali and Al-Battani...
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    Arabs (redirect from Al-ʿarab)
    minutes and 22 seconds off. In mathematics, al-Battānī produced a number of trigonometrical relationships. Al-Zahrawi, regarded by many as the greatest...
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  • Harranian astronomers and mathematicians Thabit ibn Qurra (died 901) and al-Battani (died 929). From the early tenth century on, the term 'Sabian' was applied...
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    ISBN 978-1-78453-138-6. Hartner, Willy (1970–80). "Al-Battānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Jābir Ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī al–Ṣābi". Dictionary of Scientific Biography...
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    secant and cosecant. Al-Khwārizmī (c. 780–850) produced tables of sines, cosines and tangents. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (853–929) discovered...
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    Revolutionibus: Albategnius (Al-Battani), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Thebit (Thabit Ibn Qurra), Arzachel (Al-Zarqali), and Alpetragius (Al-Bitruji), but he does not...
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    Raqqa (redirect from Al Rakka)
    Syriens. Al-Battani, astronomer, astrologer and mathematician (c. 858 – 929) Abdul-Salam Ojeili, novelist and politician (1918–2006) Harun al-Rashid, fifth...
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    geocentric model by al-Battani,[citation needed] Averroes,[citation needed] Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi and Ibn al-Shatir were later incorporated...
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    trigonometry. In 830 AD, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi produced the first table of cotangents. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius) (853-929 AD)...
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    Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni /ælbɪˈruːni/ (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian...
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    Astronomy of Al-Battani Gerard of Cremona's translation of the Algebra of al-Khwārizmī Robert of Chester's 1145 translation of the tables of al-Khwārizmī...
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    as well as the works of Persian and Arab astronomers such as Al Battani and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. One of the earliest works on trigonometry by a northern...
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  • model by al-Battani, Ibn al-Haytham, Averroes and the Maragha astronomers such as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Urdi and Ibn al-Shatir. Scholars...
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  • of the Earth, while controlled experiments can be seen in the works of al-Battani (853–929 CE) and Alhazen (965–1039 CE). Watson and Crick then produced...
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    is one of the famous Muslim astronomers who appeared after Al-Battani and Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, and he was perhaps the greatest astronomer of his time...
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    lasting impact on Western mathematical thought. Mathematicians like Al-Battānī, Al-Khayyām, and Abū Kāmil, with their contributions to trigonometry, algebra...
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    into Arabic; ibn Fadlan, explorer; al Battani (d. 923), astronomer; al-Tabari (d. 923), historian and theologian; al-Razi (d. 930), a philosopher who made...
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    Derivatives Trigonometric series Mathematicians Hipparchus Ptolemy Brahmagupta al-Hasib al-Battani Regiomontanus Viète de Moivre Euler Fourier v t e...
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    established al-Mu'tadidi hospital in Baghdad; and the mathematician and astronomer al-Battani. One of the leading intellectual figures of the period was al-Mu'tadid's...
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    an Arabic manuscript by the celebrated tenth-century Arab astronomer al-Battānī. With his publication of a book on Egyptian Arab dialect in 1900 he was...
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    scientist Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī, Latinized as Albategnius. Albategnius is one of the largest...
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  • Arabic page with the term "samt al-rā's" is here and the translator has a note about it in Latin here. Al-Battani's Kitāb Al-Zīj was translated to Latin around...
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    Copernicus. In the Islamic world, Ibn al-Haytham doubted Ptolemy's notion of the planetary orbits, and Muhammad al-Battani recalculated the parameters. However...
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    not stated in general) by al-Khwārizmī (9th century), al-Battānī (9th century), and Nīlakaṇṭha (15th century). Jamshīd al-Kāshī, a 15th century Persian...
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    across the sky. Copernicus (1473–1543) later used some of Al-Battani's astronomic tables. Al-Zarqali (1028–1087) developed a more accurate astrolabe, used...
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    Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī. The law of tangents for spherical triangles was described in the 13th century by Persian mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201–1274)...
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