Abu Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib, also al-Khaseb, Albubather in Latin, was a
Persian physician
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and
astrologer
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of the 9th century.
He wrote in
Persian and
Arabic
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and is best known for his work ''De nativitatibus'' which was translated into Latin by
Canonicus Salio in
Padua
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1218, and was also translated into Hebrew. The first printed edition appeared in Venice in 1492, edited by Antonio Lauro, a Venetian prelate. It contains detailed descriptions of the influence of the planets, sun, moon and zodiac on a child throughout the gestation period, from physical characteristics to musical ability.
Works
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See also
*
List of Iranian scientists
References
Sources
* ''Al-fihrist'' by
Ibn al-Nadim
Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm (), also Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the '' nasab'' (patronymic) Ibn an-Nadīm (; died 17 September 995 or 998), was an important Muslim ...
, p. 276 and Commentary, p. 131.
* H. Suter : Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (32, 1900)
* Nachtrage (162, 1902)
* Encyclopedia of Islam, II, 274, 1916.
Year of birth unknown
9th-century deaths
9th-century Iranian physicians
Medieval Iranian astrologers
Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
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