al-Battani, Abu Abdullah [known as Albategnius] (c. 868-c. 929)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3404. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Harran, in present-day Syria, al-Battani spent most of his life in Raqqa, situated on the bank of the Euphrates, where he was educated and flourished as a scholar and a Sabean which means `worshipper of the stars'. His best-known achievement was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds, an extremely accurate value that was used in the Grego...

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