1001 Inventions
Edited by Salim T. S. al-Hassani
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“…\ A mbabah, ancestor of the violin 950 Al-Farabi from Baghdad dies. A philosopher and musician, he invented the ancestor of the violin. 957 Cartographer and writer AlMasudi describes his visit to the…”
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“…century is striking. About 70 years after Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi developed the rababah, an ancestor of the violin family, and qanun, a table zither. He wrote five books on music, but The Great Book…”
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“…exploring the limits of their art. Abu Nasr alFarabi-who died in 950 and is better known for his work on music, philosophy, and his commentaries on Aristotle-is credited with a treatise of geometric…”
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“…to the harp and � zither, introduced by Al-Farabi in the tenth century, but used in Roman times as a freestanding instrument. is for the chess piece rook from the Persian rukh. �…”
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“…(325-265 B.CE. ); Alexandria, Egypt; Gr eek mathematician. Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr (870-950), also known as Alpharabius; near Farab, Khazakhstan, but flourished and worked in Iraq; philosopher and music theorist. Al-Farghani, Abu-al-Abbas Ahmad ibn…”
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