PERSON

Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ

Name (arabic)

أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح

Name (translit)

Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ

Alias

Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
Geber

Flourished

11xx CE/ 04xx AH

Lived in

Number in MAMS

448

Biography URL

ismi_id

34445

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomy: General

Mathematics: General

Fī al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ , في الشكل القطّاع

References

Calvo, Emilia. 2007. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ: Abū Muḥammad Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference, ed. Thomas Hockey, 581-82. New York: Springer.
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. 176 (no. 448).

Samsó, Julio. 2001. “Ibn Al-Haytham and Jābir B. Aflaḥ’s Criticism of Ptolemy’s Determination of the Parameters of Mercury”. Suhayl 2: 199-226.
Lorch, Richard. 1997. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 459.
Lorch, Richard. 1995. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ and the Establishment of Trigonometry in the West”. In Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Lnstruments, Texts, Transmission, ed. Richard Lorch. Vol. VIII. Aldershot: Variorum.
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Pp. 317-20, 326-30.

King, David, George Saliba, and Noel Swerdlow. 1987. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ’s Interesting Method for Finding the Eccentricities and Direction of the Apsidal Line of a Superior Planet”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 501-12. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
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P. 135.

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Vol. 2, p. 330.

Lorch, Richard. 1976. “The Astronomical Instruments of Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ and the Torquetum”. Centaurus 20: 11-34.
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P. 63.

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P. 174.

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Pp. 119-20.

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Pp. 524-28.

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Vol. 2, p. 206.