Farghani, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathir Al-

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(Latinized name, Alfraganus). A ninth-century Middle Asian astronomer.

Al-Farghani’s treatise A Book on Celestial Motions and a Compendium of the Sciences of the Stars is a concise encyclopedia of the astronomical knowledge of his time. The treatise became known in Europe through a translation from Arabic to Latin in the 12th century and through translations into other European languages in the 13th century. The treatise was first printed in 1493 in Ferrara.

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Krachkovskii, I. Iu. Izbr. soch., vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad, 1957. Page 86.

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