Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)

Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics. These two pages form the colophon of the manuscript.

Al-Ṣābiʾ Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (Arabic: ثابت بن قره‎, Latin: Thebit/Thebith/Tebit; 826 – February 18, 901) was an Arab Sabian mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator who lived in Baghdad in the second half of the ninth century during the time of Abbasid Caliphate.

Ibn Qurra made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy. In astronomy, Thabit is considered one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system, and in mechanics he was a founder of statics.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Algebra (nonfiction)
• Geometry (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Thābit ibn Qurra @ Wikipedia

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