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Al-Majriti, Maslamah, He was an astronomer, mathematician, and chemist. …
Al-Majriti, Maslamah
Al-Majritiya, Fatima
AL-Zahrawi
Al-Zarqali
Nur al-Din Al-Bitruji
Ibn Rushd
Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi
Al-Hasan al-Marrakushi
Ibn al-Baitar
An Andalusian botanist, pharmacist, physician, and scientist, from Malaga. He was greatly influential on later physicians and pharmacists.
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A Moroccan mathematician and astronomer (1281)
Al-Hasan was particularly interested in the field of trigonometry
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a Moroccan mathematician and astronomer (1256-1321)
Memorialized by having a crater on the moon named after him
Ibn al-Banna dealt with algebra, astronomy, linguistic, logic, and other topics. He covered calulations regarding the islamic law of inheritance, legal taxes, as well as determining the Asr prayer time.
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al-Marrakushi crater
Statue of Ibn Rushd in Córdoba, Spain
One of the greatest Muslim polymaths of all time, a famous philosopher, jurist, and a medical scientist. He also had advanced knowledge in astronomy, physics, mathematics, psychology, etc. He authored more than 100 books and treatises.
He was known in the west as
The Commentator
and
Father of rationalism
because of his philosophical works which include many commentaries on Aristotle. He continued to attract followers up to the sixteenth century
Important contribution in Medicine: Ibn Rushd wrote Al-Kulliyat fi al-Tibb, a compilation of Galen's works, and a commentary on Ibn Sina's the
Canon of Medicine
. The Latin translation of the work, named the Colliget, became a medical textbook in Europe for centuries.
Famous scientists from Andalusia and the Maghrib region:
Al-Andalus
An important Andalusian astronomer and a Qadi, also known in the west by his Latinized name Alpetragius which was later given to a crater on the Moon
Important contributions: Al-Bitruji rote Kitāb al-Hayʾah which critiqued the Ptolemaic model and was the first to present a non‐Ptolemaic astronomical system. His system also proposed a physical cause of celestial motions.
Alpetragius crater
a great astronomer from Cordoba, probably the best observer
of his time.
he produced an improved astrolabe; he was the first to clearly prove the motion of the solar apogee with respect to the stars.
he edited the celebrated “Toledan Tables” which are planetary tables of observations and calculations that were made by him and other astronomers from Toledo
produced an introduction to trigonometry
He was the greateset muslim surgeon, the physicain of of al-Hakam II.
He is most famous for the surgical tools he used and described in his great encyclopedia AL-Tasrif
Al Tasrif is a medical encyclopedia in 30 sections containing surgical descriptions, including interesting methods of preparing drugs by sublimation and distillation.
The daughter of Maslamah al-Majriti
She wrote several works known as Correction from Fatima
With her Father, They edited and corrected ‘The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi
They worked on calendars, calculation of the true position of the Sun, the Moon and the planets, tables of sine and tangents, spherical astronomy, astrological tables, parallax calculations, eclipses, and Moon visibility
He was an astronomer, mathematician, and chemist.
(950 in Madrid – 1007 in Córdoba)
He edited, adapted, and improved the astronomical tables of al-Khwarizmi
He helped convert Persian dates to Arab-Islamic ones (Hijri years).
He wrote treatise on the astrolabe and commentary on Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium.
He introduced the techniques of surveying and triangulation.
He was one of the earliest alchemists to record the usage and experimentation of mercury(II) oxide.
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