Albategnius biography of george michael
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Mathematical astronomy - Biographies
- Aaboe, Asger
- Abbe, Ernst
- Abraham dryckesställe Hiyya
- Abu'l-Wafa al-Buzjani
- Adams, John Couch
- Adelard of Bath
- Adler, August
- Adrianus, Romanus
- Aepinus, Franz
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Airy, George
- Ajima, Naonobu
- al-Amili, Baha'
- al-Banna, al-Marrakushi
- al-Battani, Abu Abdallah
- al-Biruni, Abu Arrayhan
- al-Haitam, Abu Ali
- al-Haytham, Abu Ali
- al-Jayyani, Abu
- al-Kashi, Ghiyath
- al-Khalili, Shams
- al-Khayyami, Omar
- al-Khazin, Abu
- al-Khujandi, Abu
- al-Khwarizmi, Abu
- al-Kuhi, Abu
- al-Maghribi, Muhyi
- al-Mahani, Abu
- al-Marrakushi, ibn al-Banna
- al-Nayrizi, Abu'l
- al-Quhi, Abu
- al-Samarqandi, Shams
- al-Samawal, Ibn
- al-Sijzi, Abu
- al-Tusi, Nasir
- al-Tusi, Sharaf
- Alasia, Cristoforo
- Albategnius (al-Battani)
- Alcuin of York
- Alfvén, Hannes
- Alhazen (al-Haitam)
- Ambartsumian, Victor
- Amili, Baha' al
- Ananias of Shirak
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- Anaximander of Miletus
- Andoyer, Henri
- Apian, Peter
- Apianus, Petrus
- Apollonius of Perga
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al-Battani
Islamic astronomer and mathematician (died 929)
"Albategnius" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Albategnius (crater).
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī[n 1] (Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني), usually called al-Battānī, a name that was in the past Latinized as Albategnius,[n 2] (before 858 – 929) was an astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria. He is considered to be the greatest and most famous of the astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.
Al-Battānī's writings became instrumental in the development of science and astronomy in the west. His Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’ (c. 900), is the earliest extant zīj (astronomical table) made in the Ptolemaic tradition that is hardly influenced by Hindu or Sasanian astronomy. Al-Battānī refined and corrected Ptolemy's Almagest, but also incl
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Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India. It closely parallels the genesis of other Islamic sciences in its assimilation of foreign material and the amalgamation of the disparate elements of that material to create a science with Islamic characteristics. These included Greek, Sassanid, and Indian works in particular, which were translated and built upon.
Islamic astronomy played a significant role in the revival of ancient astronomy following the loss of knowledge during the early medieval period, notably with the production of Latin translations of Arabic works during the 12th century.
A significant number of stars in the sky, such as Alde