1001 Inventions
Edited by Salim T. S. al-Hassani
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“…centur y, a Tajikistan mathematician and astronomer named Al-Khujandi built a huge obser vatory in Rayy, near Tehran, Iran, to obse rve a series of meridian transits of the sun. These let him…”
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“…Equator and the plane of the sun's ecliptic, Al-Khujandi in 994 used a device that he claimed was his own invention. It was called the Fakhri sextant because his patron was Fakhr al-Dawla,…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.Printed p. 315 PDF p. 318Biographical entry
“…(1571-1630); near Stuttgart, Germany; mathematician and astronomer . Al-Khujandi, Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr (940-1000); Khudzhand, Tajikistan; astronomer, built an obser vatory in Ray, Ir an, and constructed a sextant. Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn…”
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