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ASTRONOMERS INDEX Aryabhata (B.476),17,78, 197-201 . Abd Al ASTRONOMERS INDEX Aryabhata (b.476),17,78, Bhadrabahu (contemporary 86,89 ,94,97,101-102,104,106, of Varahamihira),110. 197-201 . Bhattotpala (10th Century),11 0. Abd al-Munim-al-AmilI,215,2l6. Brahmagupta ^628),82,86. C Abi-1-Bijal's,175. Abd al-Jabbar al-KharaqI,204. Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Caliph Mansur (754-775) of Abl Bakr Al-Farisl,203. Baghdad, 139• Abu Muhammad Ata b. Ahmad, 1 79. Callippus,67- Abu Nasr ibn Iraq (10th Copernicus,69,209,273• cent.),212. De Bois,235. Abu'1-Wafa' (940-998 ) ,209 ,210. De La Hi re, 23 6. Abu'l-Husayn al-Sufi (d.986),156. Edmond Halley (1686),111,256. Abu-Mac Shar,154. Eratosthenes,69 . al-Battani al-Sabi Euclid (fl.ca. 295 B.C.),65,21 0. (858-929), 175,209- Eudoxus (ca. 400-347 B.C),67. al-Blrunl (9 73-1048 ) ,133 ,1 44 . Fakhr al-Din Gurgani al-BitrujI (twelfth (around 1050), 155. century),178. Father Christoph,26l . al-Fahhad,204. Flamsteed,236. al-Hajjag,157. Galileo Galelei,26l. al-Kashi (fl.1420),144. Galileo,261 . Al-Khwarizmi (d.860),176. Ganesa Daivajna (b. 1507),193• al-Marzuqi (d 1030),154. Geminus,72. al-Qayini (10th century),21 6. Hipparchus,70,72,209• al-Qazwinld (d 1283),154. Hyp sides,70. al-ShirazI,204. Ibn Asim (d.1013),154. al-Shirwani,204. -al-Ajdabi ( d. prior Cal-CUrdi (1260),21 6,222. to 1203),154. al-Zarqalluh,1 75,1 79• -ash-Shatir,273• Aluel ben Yesha ,203• -Qutayba (d.884 or 889),154. Amaghavajra (705-774),125. -Sida (d.1066),154. Anaxagoras,65. -Yansi',205. Anaximander,65-66. -Yunus',178. Anaximenes,66. Issac ben Sid,178. Apollonius of Perga,70. Jabir ibn Aflah,238. Archimedes,69. Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Aristarchos of Samos,209• 38. Aristarchus,69 . Johannes Fabricius,26l . Aristotle,65-66,,208. -Kepler (1571 -1 630) ,261 ,265 . Aristyllus,69 . John of London (1246),155-156. Autolycus,66,67,209• KashI (fl. 1420), 185. Baha'uddln al- Amili Kidenas (Babylonian astronomer), (1547-1622), 217. 70. Bahram ibn Binyamin,205• -Lunar tables,70. Barhebraeus (d .1286) ,1 56. Kukai (806) the founder of Berossus Babylonian priest,115- the Shingon School of Bhaskara I (c.600),89 . Tantric Buddhism,125. Bhaskara II (1150),86. Latadeva (505),86. Lagadha (fl. ca. sixth century B.C.),22. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 08:03:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0252921100106190 288 Astronomers index Lalla (748),86,102,105. Qutrub (d.after 825),156. Linconus Roger (1250),157. Regiomontanus (1436-1476),209• Madhava of Sangamagrama §a id al-AndalusI (eleventh (c.1460-1425),198. century),1 78. Mahendra Suri,191 • Sankara Variar (1500-60),81. Menelaos,209. Sawai Jai Singh (d.1743 ) ,233 • Mohmud bin,204. Sima Quian,36. Muhd. Baqar Yazdi,219- Sphujidhvaja,133• Munksla (932),86. Sripati (1039),86. Munlsvara ^b. A.D.1603),193• Sudines (Babylonian astronomer), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 70. (1201-1274),180,185,188, TaqI al-Din of 209,210. Istanbul,209• Newcomb,256. Thabit ibn Qurra (836-901 ) ,177- Nilakantha Somayajl Timocharis,69• (1444-1545),22,81 . Tycho,265. Padmanabha,191-195. Ulugh Beg (1393-1449),6,211 ,233- Paramesvara (1380-1460),80. Varahamihira (d.587), Paulisa,17. 100-101,109,111. Plato (427-3^7 B.C.),34,67. Vasistha,17. Ptolemaos,209., Vasubandhu,133• Ptolemy,17,70-73,139,1 54,222, Vatesvara (904),86. 276,237._ _ Vettius Vatens (~160) ,86. Putumana Somayaji,79- Vijayanandin,102,142. Pythagoras (ca. 582-500 B.C.),34, Visnucandra (200),140. 67-68. _ Yaha ibn Abi Mansur, Qasim All Qayini, 205. 216. Yang Ching-fenz (764),126. Qasim bin Mutarraf,205• Qutb al-Din al-ShirazI,204. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 08:03:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0252921100106190.
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