Английская Википедия:Al-Adami

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ʿAbū ʿAlī al‐Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al‐Ādamī (Шаблон:Lang-ar; flourished in Baghdad Шаблон:Circa) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of SundialsШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn (Шаблон:Transliteration).Шаблон:Sfn The manuscript, which is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, contains tables that enabled the drawing of lines to show any desired angle of latitude.Шаблон:Sfn The surviving copy of al-Adami's 10th century manuscript (Arabe 2506,1 (fols. 1r-62r) dates from the 15th century, which King has suggested was written either by al-Adami or by a contemporary, Sa'id ibn Khafif al-Samarqandi. The tables on folios. 31vШаблон:Ndash33v were intended to be used in the construction of a vertical sundial.Шаблон:Sfn

According to the Iranian polymath al-Biruni, al-Adami was the first to demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses using a "disc of eclipses". Al-Adami was named in the Шаблон:Transliteration, written by the 10th century scholar Ibn al‐Nadīm.Шаблон:Sfn

The astronomer Ibn al-Adami, who is thought by scholars to have been al-Adami's son, wrote Шаблон:Transliteration (now lost), a Шаблон:Transliteration that used information obtained from the Sindhind, an Indian source translated into Arabic by the 8th century mathematician and astronomer Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī. The Шаблон:Transliteration was first published in 949/950.Шаблон:Sfn

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