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 past Latinized...
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Marianne Olga Battani (May 18, 1944 – September 9, 2021) was an American jurist who served as United States district judge of the United States District...
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astronomers who made significant contributions to the science include Al-Battani, Thebit, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Biruni, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Al-Birjandi...
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between Earth and the Sun. Arabic astronomical contributions include Al-Battani's discovery that the direction of the Sun's apogee (the place in the Sun's...
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gave a mean solar distance of 1,170 Earth radii, whereas in his zij, al-Battānī used a mean solar distance of 1,108 Earth radii. Subsequent astronomers...
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during the Renaissance. Astronomy in medieval Islam was advanced by Al-Battani, who improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the...
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the sky. It has been suggested that he was influenced by the works of al-Battani as the latter described a quadrant instrument in his Kitāb az-Zīj. His...
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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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produced tables of tangents and cotangents. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (853–929) discovered the reciprocal functions of secant and cosecant, and...
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Taylor 2021, pp. 109–110, 118–119. Matthews & Platt 1992, p. 299. Hall, Battani & Neitz 2004, p. 100. Matthews & Platt 1992, p. 279. Chamberlin 1986, p...
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implementation of Prolog was an interpreter written in Fortran by Gerard Battani and Henri Meloni. David H. D. Warren took this interpreter to the University...
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was used (but not stated in general) by al-Khwārizmī (9th century), al-Battānī (9th century), and Nīlakaṇṭha (15th century). Jamshīd al-Kāshī, a 15th...
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money-hungry girlfriend Liza (Stevens). He pins the blame on "Antonio Battani", a fake persona that he has created using make-up and a wig after finding...
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Muslim leader Influenced by Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī, Al-Sijzi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Al-Battani Influenced Al-Sijzi, Omar Khayyam, Al-Khazini, Zakariya al-Qazwini...
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many new locations and often improving on Ptolemy's data. For example al-Battānī used simultaneous observations of two lunar eclipses to determine the difference...
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Almagest 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...
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whose theories and observations he used in De Revolutionibus, namely al-Battani, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Zarqali, Averroes, and al-Bitruji. It has been suggested...
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astronomy where Islamic mathematicians made their greatest contributions. Al-Battani (c. 858–929) improved the measurements of Hipparchus, preserved in the...
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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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tables of sines, cosines and tangents. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (853–929) discovered the reciprocal functions of secant and cosecant, and...
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the Pennsylvania State Senate (1971–1974) (b. 1943) September 9 Marianne Battani, 77, federal judge, Eastern District of Michigan (since 2000) (b. 1944)...
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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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were translated to Latin starting from the 12th century. The work of al-Battani (d. 929), Kitāb az-Zīj ("Book of Astronomical Tables"), was frequently...
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al-Haytham doubted Ptolemy's notion of the planetary orbits, and Muhammad al-Battani recalculated the parameters. However, both still agreed with the geocentric...
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(Nov 1968) In 1970, a cover of "Flash" by Italian instrumentalist Marco Battani reached number 11 in the Dutch Top 40. He had released the song as The...
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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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Christensen (2002), p. 628. Otten (1910). McNaught (1893), p. 43. Hall, Neitz & Battani (2003), p. 100. Murray (1994), p. 45. Gnanadesikan (2011), p. [page needed]...
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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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Thābit ibn Qurra, mathematician, astronomer and translator (826/836–901) Al-Battani, mathematician and astronomer (c. 858–929) Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ, mathematician...
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq, physician, Greek translator; Ibn Fadlan, explorer; Al Battani, astronomer; Tabari, historian and theologian; Al-Razi, philosopher, medic...
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