
Thābit Ibn Qurra
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Harran |
Died | Baghdad |
Iraq | |
Parents | Qurra Ibn Marwan al-Sabi al-Harran |
Books | The Astronomical Works of Thabit B. Qurra |
The astronomical works of Thabit b. Qurra | |
Thebit ben Corat de tribus imaginibus magicis. Few MS. notes | |
Children | Sinan ibn Thabit |
Influenced by | Euclid |
Archimedes | |
Banū Mūsā | |
Apollonius of Perga | |
Nicomachus | |
Job | Physician |
Mathematician | |
Physicist | |
Astronomer | |
Influenc | Al-Khazini |
Al-Isfizari | |
Na'im ibn Musa | |
Grandchildren | Ibrahim ibn Sinan |
Era | Islamic Golden Age |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 532669 |
Thābit Ibn Qurra Life story
Al-Ṣābiʾ Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī was a Mesopotamian, Sabian-Mandaean, mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator who lived in Baghdad in the second half of the ninth century during the time of the Abbasid Caliphate. Thābit ibn Qurrah made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy.