Al-Khazini

Al-Khazini

Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (أبوالفتح عبدالرحمن منصور الخازنی (Persian), flourished 1115–1130) was an Iranian astronomer, mechanician and physicist of Byzantine Greek origin who lived during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables, written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar (Zīj al-Sanjarī, 1115), are considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period.: 107  He is considered to have been one of the greatest scientists of his era, among the greatest makers of scientific instruments of any time, and as "the physicist of all physicists". Al-Khazini is one of the few Islamic astronomers to be known for doing original observations. He provided the positions of fixed stars, and for oblique ascensions and time-equations for the latitude of Marv in which he was based.: 197  He also wrote extensively on various calendrical systems and on the various manipulations of the calendars. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Khazini is the 264th most popular mathematician (down from 196th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Iran (down from 154th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Mathematician.