Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Persian astronomer (903-986) · Scientists · Died at 82
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Something wrong?A Persian astronomer at the Buyid court who mapped the night sky in ink and image a thousand years ago, methodically cataloging what the ancients saw and correcting what they got wrong.
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About this person
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was born on 7 December 903. He worked at the Buyid court in Isfahan, where he undertook the patient labor of charting the heavens. In 964, he completed "Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib" ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), a work that combined written descriptions with illustrations of the constellations. The polymath Al-Biruni later noted that al-Sufi conducted his observations of the ecliptic in Shiraz. He died on 25 May 986, leaving behind a record of the stars as they appeared to tenth-century eyes.
Scientists born in the 900s 4
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