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Abu Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib, also al-Khaseb, Albubather in Latin, was a 
He wrote in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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physician
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and astrologer
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of the 9th century.
He wrote in Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
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 book had many reprints till 1540.
Works
*See also
*List of Iranian scientists
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References
Sources
* ''Al-fihrist'' byIbn al-Nadim
Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm ( ar, ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also ibn Abī Ya'qūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the '' nasab'' (patronymic) Ibn al-Nadīm ...
, 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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