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al-Battani
Islamic astronomer and mathematician (died )
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For the lunar crater, see Albategnius (crater).
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī[n 1] (Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني), usually called al-Battānī, a name that was in the past Latinized as Albategnius,[n 2] (before ) was an astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria.
ALBATEGNIUS, an Arabian astronomer, who died ; he wrote a treatise on the BARACK, a judge of the Hebrews about B. C.. BARADrEUS, bishop of.
He is considered to be the greatest and most famous of the astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.
Al-Battānī's writings became instrumental in the development of science and astronomy in the west. His Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’ (c.), is the earliest extant zīj (astronomical table) made in the Ptolemaic tradition that is hardly influenced by Hindu or Sasanian astronomy.
Al-Battānī refined and corrected Ptolemy's Almagest, but also included new ideas and astr