Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāġānī al-Asṭurlābī

PERSON

Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāghānī al-Asṭurlābī

Name (arabic)	أبو حامد أحمد بن محمد بن محمد الصاغاني الأسطرلابي
Name (translit)	Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāghānī al-Asṭurlābī
Flourished
Died	379H/990J
Lived in	Baghdad
Number in MAMS	223
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Saghani_BEA.htm
ismi_id	55901

Authored Works

7 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Fī al-sāʿāt al-maʿmūlah ʿalá ṣafāʾiḥ al-asṭurlāb , في الساعات المعمولة على صفائح الأسطرلاب

Astronomy: General

Maqālah fī al-abʿād wa-al-ajrām , مقالة في الأبعاد والأجرام

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Kitāb qawānīn ʿilm al-hayʾah , كتاب قوانين علم الهيئة

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī al-tasṭīḥ al-tāmm , كتاب في التسطيح التامّ

Risālah ilá al-mālik al-jalīl ʿAḍūd al-Dawlah ibn Abī ʿAlī Rukn al-Dawlah fī ʿamal ḍilʿ al-musabّbaʿ al-mutasāwī al-aḍlāʿ fī al-dāʾirah bi-al-handasah al-thābitah , رسالة إلى المالك الجليل عضود الدولة بن أبي علي ركن الدولة في عمل ضلع المسبّع المتساوي الضلاع في الدائرة بالهندسة الثابتة

[Treatise on the Trisection of an Angle]

Mathematics: General

Risālah fī hisāb al-dawr , رسالة في حساب الدور

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Pp. 89-89 (no. 223).

Rosenfeld, Boris. 1997. “Al-Saghani”. In Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine In Non‐Western Cultures, 874-75. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

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P. 291.

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P. 407.

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Pp. 217-18.

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P. 311.

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Pp. 113-15.

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P. 65.

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