Battānī, Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir al-

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Battānī, Muḥammad ibn Jābir
البتاني، محمد بن جابر
Muḥammad ibn Jābir, al-Battānī
Battani, Muhammad ibn Jabir
Abū-ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir <al-Battānī>
Albategnius
محمد بن جابر بن سنان الحرّاني البتّاني
Bethen Babylonicus
Ḥarrānī, Muḥammad ibn Sinān
Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir Al-Battānī Al-Ḥarrānī Ar-Raqqī, Abū-ʾAbdallāh
Abū-ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir Ibn Sinān al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābī al-Battānī
Abū-ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir Ibn-Sinān al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābī al-Battānī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Jābir Ibn Sinān al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābī al-Battānī
Albateny
Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir al-Battānī
Battānī, Abū-ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir al-
Battānī, Abū-ʿAbdallāh M.
Ibn-Ǧābir al-Battānī, Muḥammad
Battānī, Muḥammad Ibn Ǧābir Ibn Sinān
Albategni
Battani, Mohammed Ibn Dschabir al-
Mohammed Ibn Dschabir al-Battani
Albateni
Abū-ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧābir <al-Battānī>
Muḥammad Ibn Jābir al-Battānī
al-Battānī, Muḥammad Ibn Ǧābir al-
Muḥammad Ibn Ǧābir Ibn Sinān al-Battānī, Abū ʿAbdallāh
al-Battānī, Muḥammad Ibn Jābir al-
al-Battânî, Muhammed Ibn Djâbir al-
Muḥammad Ibn Sinān al-Battānī

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† 929

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Astronom

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Baghdad

Raqqa

Literaturangaben

van Dalen, Benno. 2007. “Battānī: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Jābir Ibn Sinān Al‐Battānī Al‐Ḥarrānī Al‐Ṣābiʾ ”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:101-3. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture. Pp. 64-65 (no. 137).
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Maeyama, Yasukatsu. 1998. “Determination Of The Sun's Orbit: Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Al-Battānī, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe”. Archive For History Of Exact Sciences 53: 1-49.
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Analyzes the sources of error in the solar observations of five important premodern astronomers.
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Said, Said, and Richard Stephenson. 1997. “Solar And Lunar Eclipse Measurements By Medieval Muslim Astronomers, Ii: Observations”. Journal For The History Of Astronomy 28: 29-48.
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Casulleras, Josep, Julio Samsó, and F. Jamil Ragep. 1996. “Al-Battānī, Cosmology And The Early History Of Trepidation In Islam”. In From Baghdad To Barcelona: Essays On The History Of The Islamic Exact Sciences In Honour Of Prof. Juan Vernet, 1:267-298. Barcelona: Instituto "Millás Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia árabe.
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Argues that Battānī provided a physical–cosmological alternative to Theon's simple arithmetic theory of trepidation and therewith influenced later developments in the western Islamic world.
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Said, Said, and Richard Stephenson. 1996. “Solar And Lunar Eclipse Measurements By Medieval Muslim Astronomers, I: Background”. Journal For The History Of Astronomy 27: 259-273.
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Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (Gal). 5 vol.. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill. Vol. 1, p. 222; suppl., p. 397.
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Bagheri, Mohammad. 1992. “Battâni's Version Of Trigonometric Formulas”. Taḥqīqāt‐I Islāmī [Journal Of The Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation] 7 (2): 176-169 [sic]. Edition and translation of Battānī's small treatise on the sine.
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Yano, Michio, and Mercè Grau. 1990. “Tasyīr Computation Of Kūshyār Ibn Labbān”. Historia Scientiarum: 1-16. Relates Kūshyār's method of calculating tasyīrs to those of Battānī.
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Hogendijk, Jan. 1988. “New Light On The Lunar Crescent Visibility Table Of Yaʿqūb Ibn Ṭāriq”. Journal Of Near Eastern Studies 47: 95-104. Describes and analyzes Battānī's method for solving the typical Islamic problem of predicting the first visibility of the lunar crescent after New Moon.
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King, David. 1986. “The Earliest Islamic Mathematical Methods And Tables For Finding The Direction Of Mecca”. Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 3: 82-149. Discusses Battānī's approximate method for the determination of the qibla.
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Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, Viii-Xvii Vv [Mathematicians And Astronomers Of The Muslim Middle Ages And Their Works, Viii-Xvii Centuries]. 3 vol.. Moscow: Nauka. Vol. 2, pp. 119-20; vol. 3, p. 362.
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Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Pp. 611-15.
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Bossong, Georg. 1978. Los Canones De Albateni.. Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie. Tubingen: Niemeyer. Edition and philological discussion of the Castilian translation of the canons of the Ṣābiʾ Zīj.
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Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Pp. 182-87.
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Bruin, Frans. 1977. “The First Visibility Of The Lunar Crescent”. Vistas In Astronomy 21: 331-358. Pp. 345-57.
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Kunitzsch, Paul. 1974. “New Light On Al‐Battānī's Zīj”. Centaurus 18: 270-274. Corrects mistakes in Nallino's edition of the star table on the basis of a treatise by Ibn al‐Ṣalāḥ, and confirms that Battānī used a Syriac or “old” Arabic version of the Almagest.
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Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Pp. 287-88.

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Swerdlow, Noel. 1973. “Al‐Battānī's Determination Of The Solar Distance”. Centaurus 17: 97-105. Shows that Battānī's treatment is different from Ptolemy's but likewise mathematically problematic, and that it involves some Indian elements.
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Gillispie, Charles, and Willy Hartner. 1970. “Al-Battānī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 1:507-516. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. With a summary of the most important results found in Nallino 1899-1907.
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al-Nadīm, Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist Of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey Of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol.. New York: Columbia University Press. This and al‐Qifṭī are the main sources for information on al‐Battānī's life.
Ṭūqān, Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿIlmī Fī Al-Riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam. Pp. 241-48.
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Nallino, Carlo. 1960. “Al-Battānī”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 1:1104-1105. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory In Islam And Its Place In The General History Of The Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society). Especially pp. 96-98.
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Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad. Pp. 100-6.
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Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “A Survey Of Islamic Astronomical Tables”. Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society 46, pt. 2: 121-177. Pp. 132-33 and 154-56.
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Al-Bayhaqī, ʿAlī. 1935. Kitāb Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-Ḥikmah. Ed. Mohammad Shafīʿ. Lahore: L. Ishwar Das, Registrar, University of the Panjab. P. 140.
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Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-Hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher. Pp. 280-81.
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Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja'qub An-Nadim”. Abhandlungen Für Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 6. P. 35.
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Al-Battānī Sive Albatenii Opus Astronomicum [Al‐Zīj Al‐Ṣābiʾ]. Ed. Carlo Nallino. 3 vol.. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli.
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