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Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah (Arabic: أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, born 1100 in Seville, Spain – died 1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician and inventor whose works, once translated into Latin (under his Latinized name Geber), influenced later European mathematicians and astronomers.[1][2] He invented an observational instrument known as the torquetum, a mechanical device to transform between spherical coordinate systems.[3].Gerolamo Cardano noted much of the material of Regiomontanus on spherical trigonometry was plagiarised from the twelfth-century work of the Jäbir ibn AflaH[4]
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- ^ Muslims and the Moon
- ^ Jabir Ibn Aflah
- ^ Lorch, R. P. (1976), "The Astronomical Instruments of Jabir ibn Aflah and the Torquetum", Centaurus 20(1): 11-34
- ^ Victor J. Katz-Princeton University Press
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