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I recently corrected the title of al-Battani's zij following Kennedy's authoritative study. In doing so I removed the Arabic version of the title formerly given. It would help if anyone knowing Arabic could provide proper Arabic text for the title given. -- SteveMcCluskey 19:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello I think, this formula
is wrong.
The good version is this one (4 September 2005)
or this one :
Did he die in Damascus, or near Samarra? AnonMoos ( talk) 07:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
This is dubious:
C wasn't a great observer. That was Tycho Brahe. "used by C" might make more sense William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:08, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 20 December 2020. Further details are available
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 13:43, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Apart from his name, which contains ALLAH and MUHAMMAD, the text of his book "Azzij" is available in Arabic at www.alwaraq.com. The book contains multiple quotes from the Quran and Hadith in addition to the usual Shahadah at the start of chapter 1. These distinctive writing features unequivocally affirm that he was Muslim. -- Alwiqi ( talk) 03:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Recent edits, clearly by non-native speakers, have been pushing something of a Syrian agenda, but they are not supported by reliable sources. There is no such thing as "natural Syria" -- Syria is a cultural construct, and the territory involved is now part of a different country. Al-Battani's native language might well have been Syriac, but he wrote in Arabic, and those works are why he is notable. Syriac is therefore irrelevant, and again, unsupported. -- Elphion ( talk) 21:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
... when the Sun is farthest from the Earth, an annular solar eclipse occurs. (in the section Astronomy). This is incorrect. Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is farthest from the Earth (therefore smaller in apparent diameter), or (less often) when the Sun is closest to the Earth (therefore larger in apparent diameter). I haven't corrected the article, as I don't know which conclusion al-Battani reached, but it surely is not the one currently in the article. -- Elphion ( talk) 02:38, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
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I recently corrected the title of al-Battani's zij following Kennedy's authoritative study. In doing so I removed the Arabic version of the title formerly given. It would help if anyone knowing Arabic could provide proper Arabic text for the title given. -- SteveMcCluskey 19:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello I think, this formula
is wrong.
The good version is this one (4 September 2005)
or this one :
Did he die in Damascus, or near Samarra? AnonMoos ( talk) 07:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
This is dubious:
C wasn't a great observer. That was Tycho Brahe. "used by C" might make more sense William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:08, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 20 December 2020. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Roro1022.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 13:43, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Apart from his name, which contains ALLAH and MUHAMMAD, the text of his book "Azzij" is available in Arabic at www.alwaraq.com. The book contains multiple quotes from the Quran and Hadith in addition to the usual Shahadah at the start of chapter 1. These distinctive writing features unequivocally affirm that he was Muslim. -- Alwiqi ( talk) 03:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Recent edits, clearly by non-native speakers, have been pushing something of a Syrian agenda, but they are not supported by reliable sources. There is no such thing as "natural Syria" -- Syria is a cultural construct, and the territory involved is now part of a different country. Al-Battani's native language might well have been Syriac, but he wrote in Arabic, and those works are why he is notable. Syriac is therefore irrelevant, and again, unsupported. -- Elphion ( talk) 21:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
... when the Sun is farthest from the Earth, an annular solar eclipse occurs. (in the section Astronomy). This is incorrect. Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is farthest from the Earth (therefore smaller in apparent diameter), or (less often) when the Sun is closest to the Earth (therefore larger in apparent diameter). I haven't corrected the article, as I don't know which conclusion al-Battani reached, but it surely is not the one currently in the article. -- Elphion ( talk) 02:38, 2 August 2022 (UTC)