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Thabit ibn Qurra
Abu'l Hasan Thabit ibn Qurra' ibn Marwan al-Sabi al-Harrani (826 - February 18, 901) (Arabic: Ø"ابت بن قرة) was an Arab astronomer and mathematician, who was known as Thebit in Latin.

 


Thabit Ibn Qurra (Baghdad) writes the manuscripts "Description of the figures formed by the extremity of a gnomon in its passage on a horizontal plane, in all the days, in all the places" and "Book on the instruments which indicate the hours, ...

Thabit ibn Qurra
was an Arab Islamic astronomy, Islamic mathematics and Islamic medicine who was known as 'Thebit' in Latin....
(836-901 AD), and Latin by Gerard of Cremona
Gerard of Cremona ...

^ "All Islamic astronomers from Thabit ibn Qurra in the ninth century to Ibn al-Shatir in the fourteenth, and all natural philosophers from al-Kindi to Averroes and later, are known to have accepted ...

Designated Tabit by Becvar but Allen gives Thabit as Burritt's name for an unlettered star on his atlas, the Upsilon of Heis (HR 1855).

This theory is commonly attributed to the Arab astronomer Thabit ibn Qurra, but the attribution has been contested in modern times. Nicolaus Copernicus published a different account of trepidation in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543).

Thabit Upsilon Orionis
Theemin Upsilon-2 Eridani
Thuban Alpha Draconis
Tien Kuan Zeta Tauri
Toliman Alpha Centauri
Torcularis Septentrionalis Omicron Piscium
Tseen Kee Phi Velorum
Tureis Pi Puppis
Tyl Epsilon Draconis ...

(Alpha Ori) RIGEL (Beta Ori) BELLATRIX (Gamma Ori) MINTAKA (Delta Ori) ALNILAM (Epsilon Ori) ALNITAK (Zeta Ori) Nair al Saif (Iota Ori) SAIPH (Kappa Ori) Meissa (Lambda Ori) Tabit (Pi 3 Ori) Tabit (Pi 2 Ori) Tabit (Pi 4 Ori) Tabit (Pi 1 Ori) Thabit ...

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