History Of Astronomy: Persons (J) jabir ibn aflah Gabir ben Aflah; Geber Hispalensis, alIshbili AbuMuhammad (c.1100-c.1160). Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.) http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_j.html
History Of Astronomy: Persons (G) Gabir ben Aflah see jabir ibn aflah; Gabor, Dennis (19001979). The Nobel Prizein Physics 1971 Including an autobiography. Very short biographical data http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_g.html
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BRIIFS Abstracts Vol.4 No.1, 2002 The universal instrument of jabir ibn aflah (twelfth century) was a theoreticalconstruct. With the addition of extra rings, the dhat alhalaq was adapted http://www.riifs.org/abstracts/abstract_islamscience.htm
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ALHAMBRA 2000 - THE CONGRESS attitude towards alFarghani, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Bitruji, ibn Rushd, Muhammadal Bagdadi, Pseudo-ibn al-Haytham, jabir ibn aflah, and Pseudo-at-Tusi. http://www.ugr.es/~alhambra2000/0Congr.htm
Extractions: European-Arabic Congress of Mathematics (with History of European and Arabic Mathematics and Mathematicians) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE President: CONTENTS AND SCOPE The ALHAMBRA 2000 European-Arabic Congress of Mathematics (with History of European and Arabic Mathematics and Mathematicians) aims for presenting a global view of how mathematical schools around the Mediterranean Sea contributed to the development of Mathematics. It will especially focus on the following points: The role played by Spain during the Middle Ages in the advancement of Mathematics was twofold. First, the very development of Mathematics during the age of Al-Andalus was very important. On the other hand, various communities lived in Spain in good terms and worked together. Fm the 12th century onwards, this attracted scholars from the North of Europe who came to Spain to translate this body of knowledge into Latin. As a consequence, this symposium is designed for a wide audience, which is not limited to specialists on past and present-day Mathematics, Arabic, Medieval, Renaissance and Classical mathematics.
Muslim Contributions To Science, Philosophy, And The Arts jabir ibn aflah was a Spanish Arab who criticized Ptolemy s heliocentric theoryof planetary motion. He designed the first portable celestial sphere to http://www.jannah.org/articles/contrib.html
Fall 00 Approximate date of birth of jabir ibn aflah (better known in the west as Geber)in Seville. Although not among the first rank Islamic mathematicians, http://math.cudenver.edu/~maa-rm/rmnewslett/newslettf00.html
Extractions: In 1991, the MAA Board of Governors established Section Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics to recognize excellence in mathematics teaching at the post-secondary level. The Rocky Mountain Section Award is named in honor of Burton W. Jones, a lifelong advocate of excellence in teaching and a strong supporter of the members and programs of the MAA. In addition to being honored with a certificate and check, award recipients are invited to deliver the opening address at the following year's spring meeting. Criteria for the DTA award require more than merely effective teaching. Awardees are expected to be outstanding teachers who are widely recognized both within and beyond their own institution for their extraordinary success in teaching. Professor Barbara Bath of the Colorado School of Mines is clearly such a teacher. Barbara's students consider her demanding, yet supportive. She is sincere with praise and constructive with criticism, and students quickly recognize her genuine compassion for them. In the last eight years, she has received teaching awards on seven separate occasions, four of which were awarded by graduating seniors at CSM. She was also instrumental in the award of the 1998 Minority Engineering Program Commitment Award to the CSM Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. In recent years, Barbara has played an exceedingly important role in the development of new curriculum at CSM. She has provided leadership in the design of several new courses, including a complete revamping of the calculus sequence. She also serves as a mentor in the Guy T. McBride Jr. Honors Program, a program designed to provide students an opportunity to cross the boundaries of technical expertise and gain sensitivity to the moral and social implications of their profession.
Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL) Thabit ibn Qurra, alBitruji, ibn Rushd, Muhammad al Bagdadi, Pseudo-ibnal-Haytham (Ibn Mu`adh), jabir ibn aflah, and Pseudo-at-Tusi are explored. http://www.ethnomath.org/search/browseResources.asp?type=subject&id=332
History Of Mathematics: Chronology Of Mathematicians 1090c. 1167) *SB; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sa igh ibn Bajja (Avenpace) (d.1139) *SB; Abu Muhammad jabir ibn aflah al-Ishbili (Geber) (c. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html
Extractions: Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China , and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere Europe Greece India , and Japan 1700 B.C.E. 100 B.C.E. 1 C.E. To return to this table of contents from below, just click on the years that appear in the headers. Footnotes (*MT, *MT, *RB, *W, *SB) are explained below Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.) *MT Baudhayana (c. 700) Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550) *MT Apastamba (c. 600) Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610-c. 547) *SB Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490) *SB *MT Anaximenes of Miletus (fl. 546) *SB Cleostratus of Tenedos (c. 520) Katyayana (c. 500) Nabu-rimanni (c. 490) Kidinu (c. 480) Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-c. 428) *SB *MT Zeno of Elea (c. 490-c. 430) *MT Antiphon of Rhamnos (the Sophist) (c. 480-411) *SB *MT Oenopides of Chios (c. 450?) *SB Leucippus (c. 450) *SB *MT Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 440) *SB Meton (c. 430) *SB
AT THE THRESHHOLD OF A NEW MILLENNIUMII, MG Vol. 1 No. 2 929), jabir ibn aflah Geber Filius Aflac (d. 1050 ), Khalid ibn Yazid CalidFilius Jezidi (d. 704 ), AlKhawarizmi Alkhwarizi (d. http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15-1-2000/Art5.htm
Extractions: By Zafarul-Islam Khan Much of our internal problems may be traced to the self-imposed decadence and the self-created ideological vacuum. After the Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century, our scholars closed the doors of ijtihad, i.e., independent reasoning and inference about new issues and situations which keep arising because human society by its very nature is in constant flux and in an ever-changing ferment. Only animals are unable to plan any change in their lives. New situations and challenges crop up all the time in every human society. And only those societies succeed and grow which accept new challenges and take the trouble of solving their problems in time. Islam had foreseen this problem and to tackle it had created the institution of ijtihad, reasoning or inference by scholars, as the fourth source of Islamic rules after the Quran, Sunnah and ijmac, that is consensus of the scholars. The institution of ijtihad had emerged during the very life-time of the Prophet. Perhaps I do not have to remind you that at the time of despatching Muadh, may Allah be pleased with him, as governor of the Yemen in 9H/630-1CE, the Prophet asked him how he was going to give his rulings. Muadh replied that I will rely on the Book of Allah, then on the Sunnah of His Prophet. And if I do not find anything in these sources I will use my reasoning. The Prophet was very pleased with this reply.
Science News Online - Ivars Peterson's MathLand - 1/18/97 One of these scholars was jabir ibn aflah, who worked in Islamic Spain in the12th century. His methods for solving triangles on the surface of a sphere http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/1_18_97/mathland.htm
Extractions: Fragments of the Past The early history of mathematics is like a jigsaw puzzle missing many of its pieces. Historians and mathematicians have been painstakingly filling in the blanks, gradually constructing a richer, more complete story of how and where mathematical thought originated and spread. One period of considerable interest is that between the decline of Greek mathematics, which coincided with the collapse of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century, and the rise of European mathematics in the 15th century. Mathematics professor Morris Kline of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences expressed a common view of that period in his 1972 book Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times . "The Arabs made no significant advance in mathematics," he wrote. "What they did was absorb Greek and Hindu mathematics, preserve it, and ultimately, … transmit it to Europe." In other words, Islamic scholars did little more than put Greek mathematics into cold storage until Europe was ready to accept it. Historian George G. Joseph challenged that view in his provocative book
Reading Room: UNESCO-CI Geber (jabir ibn aflah), i De Astronomia o Flores ex Almagesto Geber (JabirIbn Aflah), De Astronomia o Flores ex Almagesto, en littera textualis, XIII, http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16697&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-
The Literature Of The Copernican Revolution 1185/6 AD), and alBitruji and jabir ibn aflah of Seville (both active circa 1200AD), all attempted to reformulate Ptolemaic astronomy.14 Copernicus was http://home.nycap.rr.com/mismedia/CR/Copernican Revolution.htm
Extractions: Introduction History is replete with revolutions. They have been bloody, bloodless, political, industrial, intellectual, cultural, social, sexual, scientific, and spiritual. The word has been applied to innumerable areas. We may discuss a revolution in music, such as when Jazz or Rock and Roll was introduced, or a revolution in fashion such as when the bikini or mini-skirt first appeared. Revolutions are more than a dramatic change or appearance of a sudden manifestation of a heretofore-unknown idea. A revolution represents a change of values. What we value becomes part of our culture and defines who we are. Who we are today and what we define as our modern world was born of a revolution that took place not on the battlefield, but in the mind. This paper will review the written works of the astronomers, scientists, and mathematicians who participated in what has come to be called the Copernican Revolution. The Ancient Universe: Staring up at the night skies and contemplating the nature of the universe must surely rank as one of the humanity's oldest philosophical pursuits. Often, how a particular culture defines the universe tells us more about the culture than the true nature of the universe. The ancient Egyptians, for example, imagined their universe as a sort of an elongated platter, closely resembling the dimensions of the Nile valley. Like the Babylonians, the Egyptians imagined the heavens to be a sort of dome over the Earth.
MuslimHeritage.com - Topics jabir ibn aflah made the first portable celestial sphere to measure and explainthe movements of celestial objects. Read more http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=231
Adnan Husain Paper 1138), jabir ibn aflah (fl. 1120), Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), Averroes (d. 1198), andAlBitruji (fl. 1200). Of these, Al-Bitruji was the only one to formulate http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/sawyer/archive/islam/dallal.html
Extractions: In the absence of thorough and exhaustive accounts for developments in the various scientific disciplines as well as accounts for the epistemological foundations of these sciences, it only stands to reason that attempts to provide general characterizations of science in Muslim societies and its relation to religion can only be provisional and subject to scrutiny. Even such seemingly straight forward characterizations of the scientific activity in Muslim societies as Islamic or Arabic cannot be taken for granted, and the same applies to the assertion that Islam has either a positive or a negative attitude towards science. I do not mean here to deny the validity of using terms such as "Islamic science", but simply to stress the importance of addressing the question of methodology before venturing such general characterizations. Almost invariably, discussions of the Islamic attitude toward science invoke the works of al-Ghazali (d. 505/111). I will not attempt to summarize Ghazali¹s views on the various sciences; these views have received more scholarly attention than those of any other Muslim scholar who had written on the subject. It is important to note, however, that the debate regarding Ghazali¹s true attitudes and views continues among contemporary scholars, and there seems to be no consensus even over the interpretation of his most obvious work
Extractions: Return to Ultimate SF Table of Contents May be posted electronically provided that it is transmitted unaltered, in its entirety, and without charge. We examine both works of fiction and important contemporaneous works on non-fiction which set the context for early Science Fiction and Fantasy. There are hotlinks here to authors, magazines, films, or television items elsewhere in the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide or beyond. Most recently updated: 25 April 2003 [from 65 to 81 kilobytes]. This web page draws heavily on FACTS as listed in " The Timetables of Science Facts were also checked against " The 1979 Hammond Almanac " [ed. Martin A. Bacheller et al., Maplewood, New Jersey, 1978], p.795; and the Wikipedia . It also utilizes facts from Volume I of D.E. Smith's " History of Mathematics " [(c) 1921 by David Eugene Smith; (c) 1951 by May Luse Smith; New York: Dover, 1958]. Executive Summary of the 11th Century Major Books of the Decade 1000-1010 Major Books of the Decade 1010-1020 Major Books of the Decade 1020-1030 ... Where to Go for More : 51 Useful Reference Books This was a major century for the Vikings ; the Great Schism (1054) between the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox churches; the
Islamic Mathematics Lorch, R. jabir ibn aflah and the Establishment of Trigonometry in the West.Published (only) in *189 no. VIII. *157. Luckey, P. Zur Entstehung der http://www.math.uu.nl/people/hogend/Islamath.html
Extractions: Version 13 January 1999. This bibliography is a revised, enlarged and updated version of the bibliography on Islamic mathematics by Richard Lorch on pp. 65-86 of Joseph W. Dauben's The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography , New York and London: Garland, 1985. This bibliography of Islamic mathematics will appear as a chapter in the updated (1999?) version of Dauben's book which will be made available as a CD-Rom. Reactions and suggestions are very welcome, and can be sent to hogend@math.uu.nl . In this preliminary form, no attention has been paid to diacritical marks in Arabic names. The items in the bibliography have been numbered *1, *2, ... *122, *122a, *122b, *123 etc. and many cross-references have been provided. General Introduction Introductory Works Bibliographies and Handbooks Illustrated Works ... Texts and Commentaries (Specific Authors in Chronological Order) Studies on Specific Subjects Transmission of Mathematics Mathematics in Specific Areas in the Islamic World Arithmetic Irrational Magnitudes ... Number Theory, Indeterminate Equations and Magic Squares
Astronomía Arabe Translate this page los trabajos de Ibn Qurra, Al-Tusi y Al-Sufi, o la obra de jabir ibn aflah (s . cuyo nombre completo era Abu Abdallah Mohammad ibn Jabir Al-Battani. http://aagc.dis.ulpgc.es/gt_historia_constelaciones/astronomiaarabe.htm
Study Guide For Pedersen Early Physics And Astronomy 2nd Ed. 1993 18.1 What were jabir ibn aflah s criticisms of Ptolemy? 18.2 Who was TheCommentator and what did he comment on? 18.3 Which ancient astronomer did Ibn http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/B/Peter.Barker-1/HSCI3013/pedersen.htm
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Teach Me The Positives Of Middle Eastern Philosophy - Information jabir ibn aflah writes works on mathematics which, although not as good as manyother Arabic works, are important since they will be translated into Latin http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/t-28851_Teach_me_the_positives_of_Middle_Ea
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Full Alphabetical Index Translate this page Geber, (jabir ibn aflah) (529) Gegenbauer, Leopold (123*) Geiringer, Hilda vonMises (1469*) Geiser, Karl (258*) Gelfand, Israil (1090*) http://www.maththinking.com/boat/mathematicians.html
