PERSON
Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
Name (arabic) |
أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح
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Name (translit) |
Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
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Alias |
Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
Geber
ابو محمد جابر بن افلح
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Flourished |
493H/1100J
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Lived in |
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Number in MAMS |
448
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Biography URL |
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ismi_id |
34445
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Authored Works
2 works:Astronomy: General
Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (Jābir ibn Aflaḥ) , اصلاح المجسطي
Mathematics: General
Fī al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ , في الشكل القطّاع
References
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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.
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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.
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P. 174.
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Pp. 119-20.
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