List of Famous people with last name Al-battani

Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī

First Name Muḥammad
Last Name Al-Battānī
Born on November 30, 0857
Died on January 1, 0929 (aged 71)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Raqqī al-Ḥarrānī aṣ-Ṣābiʾ al-Battānī was a Syrian Arab astronomer, and mathematician. He introduced a number of trigonometric relations, and his Kitāb az-Zīj was frequently quoted by many medieval astronomers, including Copernicus. Often called the "Ptolemy of the Arabs", al-Battani is perhaps the greatest and best known astronomer of the medieval Islamic world.

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