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    Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī (Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني), usually called al-Battānī, a name that was in the past Latinized...
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    Marianne Olga Battani (May 18, 1944 – September 9, 2021) was an American jurist who served as United States district judge of the United States District...
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    the sky. It has been suggested that he was influenced by the works of al-Battani as the latter described a quadrant instrument in his Kitāb az-Zīj. His...
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    between Earth and the Sun. Arabic astronomical contributions include Al-Battani's discovery that the direction of the Sun's apogee (the place in the Sun's...
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    which means 'bosom', 'pocket', or 'fold'. When the Arabic texts of Al-Battani and al-Khwārizmī were translated into Medieval Latin in the 12th century...
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    an Arabic manuscript by the celebrated tenth-century Arab astronomer al-Battānī. With his publication of a book on Egyptian Arab dialect in 1900 he was...
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  • 9th century) Ahmad Nahavandi (d. 9th century) Al-Nayrizi (d. 922) Al-Battani (d. 929) Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (d. 971) Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (d. 986) Al-Saghani...
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    were translated to Latin starting from the 12th century. The work of al-Battani (d. 929), Kitāb az-Zīj ("Book of Astronomical Tables"), was frequently...
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    many new locations and often improving on Ptolemy's data. For example al-Battānī used simultaneous observations of two lunar eclipses to determine the difference...
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    astronomers who made significant contributions to the science include Al-Battani, Thebit, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Biruni, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Al-Birjandi...
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