Jabir ibn Aflah
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Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah (Arabic: أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, born 1100 in Seville, Spain - died 1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer and mathematician whose works, once translated into Latin, influenced later European mathematicians.[1] [2] He invented an observational instrument known as the torquetum, a mechanical device to transform between spherical coordinate systems.[3]
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- ^ Muslims and the Moon
- ^ Jabir Ibn Aflah
- ^ R P Lorch, The Astronomical Instruments of Jabir ibn Aflah and the Torquetum, Centaurus 20 (1) (1976), 11-34.
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