Al-ʿAbbās ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī

PERSON

Al-ʿAbbās ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī

Name (arabic)	العبّاس بن سعيد الجوهري
Name (translit)	Al-ʿAbbās ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī
Alias	Jawharī
Flourished	200H/815J
Lived in	Baghdad Damascus
Notes	Jawharī, who flourished in 9th century in Baghdad, made solar, lunar, and planetary observations under the auspices of the ʿAbbāsid caliph Maʾmūn. He is alleged to have written a zīj, currently non-extant.
Number in MAMS	43
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Jawhari_BEA.htm
ismi_id	105280

Authored Works

5 works:

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī maʿrifah buʿd al-shams ʿan markaz al-arḍ , رسالة في معرفة بعد الشمس عن مركز الأرض

Geometry: General

Iṣlāḥ Kitāb al-uṣūl , إصلاح كتاب الأصول

Kitāb al-ashkāl allatī zādahā fī al-maqālah al-ūlá min Uqlīdis , كتاب الأشكال التي زادها في المقالة الأولی من أقليدس

Tafsīr Kitāb Uqlīdis , تفسير كتاب أقليدس

Ziyādāt fī al-maqālah al-khāmisah min Kitāb Uqlīdis , زيادات في المقالة الخامسة من كتاب أقليدس

References

P. 136 (no. 99), 128.

Pp. 26-27 (no. 43).

See chapter 2, "Al Mamûn's Observatory Building Activity," pp. 50-87, for a valuable discussion, beginning with a thorough analysis of early Islamic astronomical observations.

Vol. 2, p. 2017; suppl. 1, p. 382.

Pp. 243-44.

Pp. 138-39.

Vol. 1, p. 562.

Pp. 266, 272.

Vol. 1, p. 382; vol. 3, p. 466.

P. 12.

Vol. 2, pp. 46-47 (no. 21).

Pp. 26-27 (no. 43)

P. 219.

Vol. 2, p. 71.