Arabic in the Sciences
Correction of the Almagest
إصلاح المجسطي
Jabir ibn Aflah of Seville corrected Ptolemy's Almagest; in Gerard of Cremona's Latin, his book supplied the core of the German astronomer Regiomontanus's trigonometry – without acknowledgement.
- Author
- Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber) (first half of the 12th century)
- Field
- Astronomy
- Arabic title
- إصلاحُ المِجِسطي
- Latin title
- Liber super Almagesti / Gebri de astronomia libri IX
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