Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics
This chapter is talking about one of the famous and greatest Islamic astronomers and mathematicians around the world; AI-Battani has great and significant contributions in astronomy and mathematics. In astronomy, he has astronomical observations for more than forty years. In addition, he did some c...
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| author | Abdullatif, Mohammad Salah Aldin Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim |
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| description | This chapter is talking about one of the famous and greatest Islamic astronomers and mathematicians around the world; AI-Battani has great and significant contributions in
astronomy and mathematics. In astronomy, he has astronomical observations for more than forty years. In addition, he did some corrections upon Ptolemy's results and made some new tables of the Sun and the Moon. Moreover, he determined the length of solar year. In mathematics, he innovated new relationships in trigonometric, and created a table of cotangents, and made some formulas in spherical trigonometry |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:211332012-08-07T05:27:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/21133/ Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics Abdullatif, Mohammad Salah Aldin Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim QA Mathematics QB Astronomy This chapter is talking about one of the famous and greatest Islamic astronomers and mathematicians around the world; AI-Battani has great and significant contributions in astronomy and mathematics. In astronomy, he has astronomical observations for more than forty years. In addition, he did some corrections upon Ptolemy's results and made some new tables of the Sun and the Moon. Moreover, he determined the length of solar year. In mathematics, he innovated new relationships in trigonometric, and created a table of cotangents, and made some formulas in spherical trigonometry IIUM Press 2011 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/21133/1/Chapter_9.pdf Abdullatif, Mohammad Salah Aldin and Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim (2011) Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics. In: Contributions of Early Muslim Scientists to Engineering Sciences and related studies. IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 45-48. ISBN 978-967-418-157-4 http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx |
| spellingShingle | QA Mathematics QB Astronomy Abdullatif, Mohammad Salah Aldin Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics |
| title_short | Al-Battani contributions in astronomy and mathematics |
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| topic | QA Mathematics QB Astronomy |
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