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" al-Farghānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Lorch, Richard
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English
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1060130
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ALei527
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Kunitzsch, Paul
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Lorch, Richard
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al-Farghānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Lorch, Richard
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,035 words)
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Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Kathīr al-Farghānī (d. after 247/861), an astronomer at the court of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 198–218/813–33), wrote an influential compendium of Ptolemy’s Almagest in thirty chapters and a description of the construction of the astrolabe. Ibn al-Nadīm (d. c. 385/995), in his Kitāb al-fihrist (ed. Gustav Flügel, 2 vols., Leipzig 1871–2, esp. 1:279), mentions another book by al-Farghānī, on sundials. Only a fragment of his treatise on the seven climates survives (Cairo,
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Islam.
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ALei527.pdf
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