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Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
Al-Battani
Al-Battani (before 858929), archaically Latinized as Albategnius, was a Arab Muslim astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most famous of the astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.
Al-ʻIjliyyah
Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy () was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria.
Ibn Yunus
Egyptian mathematician (c. 950–1009)
Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī
Medieval Arab scholar
Ahmad ibn Yusuf
Arabic mathematician
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Arab mathematician and astronomer
Qusta ibn Luqa
Syrian Melkite Christian physician, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and translator (820–912)
Alchabitius
thumb|Opus ad scrutanda stellarum magisteria isagogicum, Latin translation from 1521
Ibn al-A'lam
arab astronomer and astrologer
Lupitus of Barcelona
Spanish astronomer
Al-Adami
ʿAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī (; flourished in Baghdad ) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials (). The manuscript, which is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, contains tables that enabled the drawing of lines to show any desired angle of latitude. The surviving copy of al-Adami's 10th century manuscript (Arabe 2506,1 (fols. 1r-62r) dates from the 15th century, which King has suggested was written either by al-Adami or by a contemporary, Sa'id ibn Khafif al-Samarqandi. The tables