al-Farghani, Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir (c. 860)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3407. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Farghana, Transoxiana (northern Iran), he wrote A Book on Celestial Motion and Science of the Stars (Kitab fi al-Harakat al-Samawiya wa Jawami Ilm al-Nujum), which was translated several times into Latin and Hebrew starting in the twelfth century. The book spread knowledge of Ptolemaic astronomy in Europe, at least until this role was taken over by Sacrobosco's Sphere on which it was base...

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