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    Muslim astronomer Alfraganus. Northwest of Alfraganus is the crater Delambre, and to the south is the irregular Zöllner. The rim of Alfraganus is circular and...
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    north is the smaller crater Alfraganus and to the northwest lies the oval-shaped Taylor. Southeast of Zöllner is the smaller crater Kant. The rim of Zöllner...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    Al-Farghani (redirect from Alfraganus)
    supervising construction projects on rivers in Cairo, Egypt. The lunar crater Alfraganus is named after him. Al-Farghani was born sometime in the early 9th...
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    Taylor is a lunar impact crater that is located to the south-southwest of Delambre. To the east is the smaller crater Alfraganus, and southeast of Taylor...
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    nearest crater with an eponym is Alfraganus to the west-southwest. However, farther to the south-southeast, across the lunar mare, is the prominent crater Theophilus...
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    one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. The lunar crater Alfraganus is named after him. Quva also famous with its fruits pomegranates...
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  • Buzz Aldrin Nikolai Alekhin Alexander the Great Alfonso X of Castile Alfraganus Dinsmore Alter Florentino Ameghino Giovanni Battista Amici Ammonius Saccas...
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    (1530–1604), Sufi saint Al-Farghani (d. 880), astronomer, known in Latin as Alfraganus Ibn al-Furat (1334–1405), historian Ibn al-Farid (c. 1181 – 1234), Arabic...
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    astronomical and mathematical treatises into Arabic. 850 – Al-Farghani (Alfraganus) translated and wrote commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest and gave values...
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