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Leo Africanus – Khaïr-EddineMorocco Portal Literature Portal Mohammed al-Rudani (Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Sulayman (Muhammad) al-Fasi ibn Tahir al-Rudani al-Susī al-Maliki al-Maghribi ) (born ca. 1627, died 1683) was an astronomer born in Taroudant, Morocco.
Al-Rudani spent most of his life in Ottoman territories. He is especially well-known for the invention of a spherical device into which another sphere (painted blue) with a different axis was placed. This second sphere was divided into two parts in which the zodiacal signs with their sections and regions were drawn. Al-Rudānī wrote a book describing it, Al Nāfia fī amal al jāmia (Medina, 1662). Rudānī's best known work is Bahja al ullāb fī al amal bi l as urlāb, a book on how to make and use an astrolabe.
Bibliography
- Suter, Heinrich (1981). Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke, Amsterdam: APA Oriental Press, p. 203 (no. 527).
- R Lorch - 1980, "The sphera solida and related instruments", in Centaurus
Volume 24 Issue 1, Pages 153 - 161, published Online: 26 Jul 2007
- Ch. Pellat, "L'astrolabe sphérique d'al-Rudani", in: BULLETIN D'ETUDES ORIENTALES Tome XXVI - 1973. Damas, 1974
External links
Salim Ayduz, "Rudānī: Abū Abdallāh Muhammad ibn Sulaymān (Muhammad) al Fāsī ibn Tāhir al Rudānī al Sūsī al Mālikī [al Maghribī] " From: Thomas Hockey et al. (eds.).The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference. New York: Springer, 2007, p. 990 [1] (retrieved May 19, 2010)
Categories:- 1627 births
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- Moroccan writers
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- People from Taroudant
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