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    Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also Albusar, Albuxar, Albumazar; full name Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī أبو معشر...
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  • Disciplina." The word Apomasares is a corruption of the name of the famous Albumasar, or Abu Ma'shar, and Leunclavius afterwards acknowledged his mistake in...
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    Hanifa Dinawari Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) Al-Farghani Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa) Ja'far Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir...
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    Ages, heliocentric models were also proposed by the Persian astronomers Albumasar and Al-Sijzi. The Aristotelian model was accepted in the Western world...
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  • This was in opposition to the tradition carried by the Arab astronomer Albumasar (787–886) whose Introductorium in Astronomiam and De Magnis Coniunctionibus...
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    Al-Biruni, Omar Khayyam, Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (known as Albumasar or Albuxar in the west), Alfraganus, Abu Wafa, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Sharaf...
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  • an-Nujûm (Dialogues on Astrology) Attributed to Abû Ma'shar al Balkhî (Albumasar) (Book Chapter in Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky...
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  • Ibn al-Banna' Ibn al-Shatir Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) Jamshīd al-Kāshī Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī Mo'ayyeduddin...
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    century), historian Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar, astrologer Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician...
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    Picatrix is as indispensable as the Corpus Hermeticum or the writings of Albumasar for understanding a conspicuous part of the production of the Renaissance...
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    century, an illustrated astronomical manuscript shows it as a water beetle. Albumasar writes of this sign in Flowers of Abu Ma'shar. A 1488 Latin translation...
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    is traced back in Europe to translations of Arabic texts, especially Albumasar's book on conjunctions. Clusterings of several planets were considered...
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    This was in opposition to the tradition carried by the Arab astronomer Albumasar (787-886) whose Introductorium in Astronomiam and De Magnis Coniunctionibus...
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    a manuscript in the library of St. Marks, the Greater Introduction of Albumasar, and the engraved written work of Thebit. Another astronomical work translated...
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    virtu de numeri eserli necessaria (Masters of astronomy, such as Ptolemy, Albumasar, Alfraganus, Jabir and all the others, have shown that the force and the...
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  • translations of the 12th century. In the 9th century, Persian astrologer Albumasar was thought to be one of the greatest astrologer at that time. His practical...
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  • The work references Abraham bar Ḥiyya ha-Nasi, Ibn Ezra, Andruzagar, Albumasar, 'Ali ibn Riḍwan, 'Ali ibn Rajil, Leopold of Austria, Johannes, Guido...
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  • In the late ninth century, Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) developed a planetary model which some have interpreted as a heliocentric...
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    be traced back to Arabic translations found in Europe; most notably Albumasar's book on Conjunctions. During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance...
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  • equator and the ecliptic) Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky Russia 1891 1952 Albumasar Persia 787 886 George Alcock United Kingdom 1913 2000 Harold Alden United...
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    on the tides. In the 9th century, Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Latinized as Albumasar) wrote his book on The Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology...
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  • wrote commentaries on the astrological works of Abraham ibn Ezra and Albumasar. He became tutor to Guy de Hainaut, brother of Count Jean d'Avesnes, for...
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    produced at these observatories. In the 9th century, Persian astrologer Albumasar was thought to be one of the greatest astrologer at that time. His practical...
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  • Armstrong (1979). The Illustrated Abridged Astrological Treatises of Albumasar: Medieval Astrological Imagery in the West. PhD dissertation. The University...
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    in the 2nd century, and summed up by the 9th century Arabic scientist Albumasar, as: "The wise man will dominate the stars," to construct an argument...
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  • of the moon and the sun over the tides. c. 850– Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) publishes his Kitab al-madkhal al-kabir recording the Moon position and...
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  • scientist), and architect Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician Al-Biruni (973–1048)...
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