Al-Farghani

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Al-Farghani was a 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician whose influential works on Ptolemaic astronomy were widely used in both the Islamic world and medieval Europe.

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instanceOf Persian scholar
astronomer
mathematician
medieval scientist
activeIn Islamic Golden Age
alsoKnownAs Al-Farghani
surface form: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani

Al-Farghani
surface form: Al-Farghani al-Farghani

Albatenius
surface form: Alfraganus
approximateBirthCentury 9th century
approximateDeathCentury 9th century
associatedWith House of Wisdom
calculated circumference of the Earth
category 9th-century astronomers
9th-century mathematicians
Persian astronomers
Persian mathematicians
century 9th century
contributedTo translation movement in Baghdad
employedBy Abbasid Caliphate
era medieval period
ethnicity Persian
field astrology
astronomy
geodesy
mathematics
influence Islamic astronomy
Latin scholastic science
medieval European astronomy
influencedBy Claudius Ptolemaeus
surface form: Ptolemy
knownFor Elements of Astronomy
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy
surface form: Kitab fi Jawami Ilm al-Nujum

works on Ptolemaic astronomy
languageOfWork Arabic
name Al-Farghani self-link
region Khorasan
surface form: Khurasan
religiousContext Islamic world
surface form: Islamic civilization
studied Ptolemaic planetary models
celestial spheres
precession of the equinoxes
sizes and distances of planets
usedBy Islamic astronomy
surface form: Islamic astronomers

medieval European scholars
workInfluenced European university curricula in astronomy
medieval astronomical tables
workTitle Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars
surface form: Compendium of the Science of the Stars

Elements of Astronomy on the Celestial Motions
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy
surface form: Jawami Ilm al-Nujum

Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy
surface form: Kitab fi Jawami Ilm al-Nujum
workTranslatedInto Hebrew
Latin

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Islamic astronomy hasKeyFigure Al-Farghani
Transoxiana producedScholar Al-Farghani
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy author Al-Farghani
this entity surface form: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani
Al-Farghani name Al-Farghani self-link
Al-Farghani alsoKnownAs Al-Farghani
this entity surface form: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani
Al-Farghani alsoKnownAs Al-Farghani
this entity surface form: Al-Farghani al-Farghani