PERSON
Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī
| Name (arabic) |
منصور بن طلحة بن طاهر بن الحسین الخزاعي
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| Name (translit) |
Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī
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| Alias |
Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥa
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| Flourished |
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| Died |
239H/854J
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| Lived in |
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| Notes |
(From MAMS2): His astronomical observations are described in Bīrūnī. |
| Number in MAMS |
45
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| ismi_id |
105171
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Authored Works
2 works:Astronomy: General
Kitāb al-ibānah ʿan istidārat al-falak , كتاب الإبانة عن استدارة الفلك
Number Theory
Risālah fī al-ʿadad wa-al-maʿdūdāt , رسالة في العدد والمعدودات
References
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.
P. 27 (no. 45).
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, 47 (no. 21.1).
Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
P. 245.
Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances Between Cities; A Translation from the Arabic of Kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt Al-amākin Li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt Al-masākin. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.
Pp. 66-67, 175, 226.
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).
Pp. 99-100.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.
P. 117.