Ibn al‐Ādamī (flourished in
Baghdad, c. 925), was a 10th-century
Islamic astronomer
Islamic astronomy comprises the Astronomy, astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in ...
who wrote an influential work of
zij based on Indian sources. The book, now lost, uses the Indian methods found in the ''
Sindhind''. The 11th-century historian
Sa'id al-Andalusi
Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī (); he was Abū al-Qāsim Ṣāʿid ibn Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid ibn ʿUthmān al-Taghlibi al-Qūrtūbi () (1029July 6, 1070 AD; 4206 Shawwal, 462 AH); an Arab qadi of Toledo ...
informs us that the theory of
trepidation that became known to Europe and was ascribed to
Thabit ibn Qurra can be found instead in the Zij of Ibn al-Adami, who himself may have known of this theory from Thabit's grandon,
Ibrahim ibn Sinan. Ibn al-Adami is also the source for the story of how
Indian astronomy reached the court of Caliph
al-Mansur in the early 770s in Baghdad.
Presumably, he is the son of
Al-Adami.
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10th-century astronomers
Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate
Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world
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