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 ] ]

ee also

*List of Arab scientists and scholars

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