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    Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī or Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (Persian: ابو الوفا بوژگانی, Arabic: ابو الوفا...
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    Wafa is an impact crater located near the lunar equator on the far side of the Moon, named after the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abu al-Wafa'...
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    mathematicians who included Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī and then also by Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muadh Al-Jayyani who worked in al-Andalus during the 11th century...
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  • with that meaning was used by, e.g., the astronomers Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī (died 998) and Abu al-Salt (died 1134). The word with the same meaning entered...
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    is variously attributed to Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Abu Nasr Mansur. Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī's The book of unknown...
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    New Stone Age). During the 10th Century, the Islamic scholar Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī (Abu'l Wafa) wrote the first serious study of spherical polyhedra. Two...
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    June 10 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (d. 998) Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician and scientist (d. 1058) Abu-Mahmud...
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    displayed a strong interest in Pythagorean concepts. In the 10th century Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani discussed multiplication and division in a treatise on arithmetic...
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    1061) Zeng Gongliang, Chinese scholar and writer (d. 1078) July 15 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician (b. 940) July 19 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine...
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    Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei, Latin, 1496 Almagestum, Latin, 1515 Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī (who also wrote an Almagest) Book of Fixed Stars Star cartography...
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