Al-Battani
Also known as Al-Batani, Albategnius, Muhammad al-Battani, Mohammed ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī, Albategni, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī, Muhammad Ibn Jabir Ibn Sinan Abu Abdullah
Al-Battani (before 858929), archaically Latinized as Albategnius, was a Arab Muslim astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most famous of the astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.
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Al-Battani was an Arab Muslim astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and mathematician who lived and worked primarily in Raqqa (in present-day Syria) during the medieval period. He is regarded as one of the greatest astronomers of the medieval Islamic world, and his work in these fields left a lasting legacy.
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18 sectionsContents
- Life
- Astronomy
- Mathematics
- Works
- {{transliteration|ar|Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’}}
- {{transliteration|ar|Maʻrifat Maṭāliʻi l-Burūj}}
- Other works
- Legacy
- Medieval period
- 16th and 17th centuries
- 18th century – present
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Versions of {{transliteration|ar|Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’}}
- {{transliteration|ar|Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’}} manuscripts
- 19th, 20th century publications
- Further reading
Al-Battani (before 858929), archaically Latinized as Albategnius, was a Arab Muslim astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria. He is considered to be one of 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 (), is the earliest extant (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 included new ideas and astronomical tables of his own. A handwritten Latin version by the Italian astronomer Plato Tiburtinus was produced between 1134 and 1138, through which medieval astronomers became familiar with al-Battānī. In 1537, a Latin translation of the was printed in Nuremberg. An annotated version, also in Latin, published in three separate volumes between 1899 and 1907 by the Italian Orientalist Carlo Alfonso Nallino, provided the foundation of the modern study of medieval Islamic astronomy.
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