Jabir ibn Aflah

Jabir ibn Aflah

Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah ( _ar. أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, born 1100 in Seville, Spain – died 1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician and inventor whose works, once translated into Latin (under his Latinized name Geber), influenced later European mathematicians and astronomers. [ [http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=375 Muslims and the Moon] ] [ [http://www.bookrags.com/research/jabir-ibn-aflah-scit-02123/ Jabir Ibn Aflah] ] He invented an observational instrument known as the torquetum, a mechanical device to transform between spherical coordinate systems. [citation|first=R. P.|last=Lorch|title=The Astronomical Instruments of Jabir ibn Aflah and the Torquetum|journal=Centaurus|volume=20|issue=1|year=1976|pages=11-34] .Gerolamo Cardano noted much of the material of Regiomontanus on spherical trigonometry was plagiarised from the twelfth-century work of the Jäbir ibn AflaH [ [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8583.html Victor J. Katz-Princeton University Press ] ]

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*List of Arab scientists and scholars

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  • Jabir Ibn Aflah — (أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح) (Séville, 1100 id. 1160) est un mathématicien et astronome andalou. Il est l inventeur du torquetum, un appareil de mesure astronomique. Portail du monde arabo musulman …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Jabir ibn Aflah — Abu Muhammad Dschabir ibn Aflah al Ischbili (arabisch ‏أبي محمد جابر بن أفلح الإشبيلي‎, DMG Abū Muḥmmad Ǧābir b. Aflaḥ al Išbīlī, nach anderen Umschriften auch Gabir ben Aflah und Jabir ibn Aflah al Ishbili; * um 1100 in Sevilla; † um 1160),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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