Saghani
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Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi (, referred to by at least one source as Ṣāghānī, was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. His name means "the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv". He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990.
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- Born
- 1181
- Died
- 1252
- Works
- 26
Top works
- al-ʻUbab al-zākhir wa-al-lubab al-fākhir
- Durr al-saḥābah fī bayān mawāḍiʻ wafayāt al-Ṣaḥabah
- كتاب اللؤلؤ المرصود فيما قيل لا اصل له او باصله موضوع
- Kitāb al-Aḍdād
- Risālah fī al-aḥādīth al-mawḍūʻah
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- Academic.name
- Ṣāghānī
- Academic.native_name
- ابوحامد صاغانی
- Academic.native_name_lang
- fa
- Academic.death_date
- 990
- Academic.death_place
- Baghdad
- Academic.era
- Islamic Golden Age
- Academic.main_interests
- Astronomy, History of science
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- date of death
- 0990-01-01
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Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi (, referred to by at least one source as Ṣāghānī, was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. His name means "the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv". He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990.
==Works== Al-Asturlabi wrote some of the earliest comments on the history of science. These included the following comparison between the "ancients" (including the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Indians) and the "modern scholars" (the Muslim scientists of his time):