Badīʿ Al-Zaman Abu al-Qasim Hibatallah Ibn Al-Ḥusayn () more commonly known as al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī, was a prominent medieval

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, and

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of the

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Biography

Al-Badi' al-Asturlabi birth place and date is unknown. He is recorded to have lived in

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in 510 AH (1116–7 AD) and was in contact with the

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physician

Ibn al-Tilmidh Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization. Life Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at th ...

(1074–1165). At a later date he moved to the city of

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, where most of his achievements occurred. He is mostly renowned for designing and creating astronomical instruments, astrolabes and as an astrologer. His most well known scientific achievement is his construction and description of an astrolabe that he called (''al-kurah dhat al-kursi)'' an astrolabe which could be used for all latitudes. The only surviving work of his is a book by the name of ''Kitab al-'amal bil Kurah'' (''On the use of the Spherical astrolabe'').

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