Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
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18 dated entries naming Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world, drawn from 18 separate years between 828 CE and 1150 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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9th century
10th century
- 929Al-Batani, Muslim astronomer and mathematiciansource
- 940June 10 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (died 998)source
- 950Ibn Yunus, Fatamid astronomer (died 1009)source
- 965Ibn al-Haytham, Arab astronomer and physicist (died 1040)source
- 971Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Persian astronomer (born 900)source
- 988Ali ibn Ridwan, Arab physician and astrologer (died 1061)source
- 990Al-Saghani, Persian astronomer and historian of sciencesource
- 1000Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Persian astronomer and Mathematics in medieval Islam/mathematiciansource
11th century
- 1009Ibn Yunus, Fatimid astronomer and mathematiciansource
- 1029Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Arab astrologer and astronomer (died 1087)source
- 1040Ibn al-Haytham, Arab astronomer (approximate date)source
- 1061Ali ibn Ridwan, Arab physician and astronomer (approximate date)source
- 1079Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician and astronomer, calculates a 33 year calendar consisting of 25 ordinary years that include 365 days, and 8 leap years that include 366 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. Khayyam, in his Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produces a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions (approximate date).source