Abul Wafa Mohammad al-Buzjani (940-97)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3395. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Buzjan, Nishapur (now Iran), Abul Wafa flourished as a mathematician and astronomer at the observatory at Sharaf al Daula, where he was the first to build a wall quadrant (over 6 m long) to observe star positions. Best known for trigonometry, he contributed to the theory of the Moon, in which he first used the tangent function, and introduced the secant and cosecant. The trigonometric tab...

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