Thabit Ibn Qurra, Abu'l-Hasan (836-901)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4050. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Harran, Mesopotamia (now Turkey), became court astronomer in Baghdad, translated Greek works on mathematics and wrote on astronomy, including Concerning the Motion of the Eighth Sphere, on the apparent motions of the stars, analysed the movements of Sun and Moon and wrote treatises on sun-dials. Some of his books were translated into Latin by Gherard of Cremona and distributed...

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