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Al-Adami
Sign in to saveʿAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī (; flourished in Baghdad ) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials (). The manuscript, which is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, contains tables that enabled the drawing of lines to show any desired angle of latitude. The surviving copy of al-Adami's 10th century manuscript (Arabe 2506,1 (fols. 1r-62r) dates from the 15th century, which King has suggested was written either by al-Adami or by a contemporary, Sa'id ibn Khafif al-Samarqandi. The tables
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ʿAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī (; flourished in Baghdad ) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials (). The manuscript, which is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, contains tables that enabled the drawing of lines to show any desired angle of latitude. The surviving copy of al-Adami's 10th century manuscript (Arabe 2506,1 (fols. 1r-62r) dates from the 15th century, which King has suggested was written either by al-Adami or by a contemporary, Sa'id ibn Khafif al-Samarqandi. The tables on folios. 31v33v were intended to be used in the construction of a vertical sundial.
According to the polymath al-Biruni, al-Adami was the first to demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses using a "disc of eclipses". Al-Adami was named in the , written by the 10th century scholar Ibn al-Nadīm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Adami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.