PERSON

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī

Name (arabic)

منصور بن طلحة بن طاهر بن الحسین الخزاعي

Name (translit)

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī

Alias

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥa

Died

239H/854J

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): His astronomical observations are described in Bīrūnī.

Number in MAMS

45

ismi_id

105171

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.