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'''Al Battani''' (ca. ]-]) was an ] ] and mathematician (also spelled '''Al Batani''', Latinized '''Albategnius''', '''Albategni''', '''Albatenius'''; born in ] near ]. He was a ], a religious sect of ] origins from the 3rd century AD that worshipped the stars. His best-known achievement was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds. '''Al Battani''' (c. ]- c. ]) was an ] ] and mathematician (also spelled '''Al Batani''', Latinized '''Albategnius''', '''Albategni''', '''Albatenius'''; ]
أبو عبد الله محمد بن جابر بن سنان الحراني الصابي البتاني ; full name ''Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān ar-Raqqī al-Ḥarrani aṣ-Ṣabiʾ al-Battānī''), born in ] near ]. His epithet ''as-Sabi'' suggests that among his ancestry were members of the ] sect who worshiped the stars, however, his full name affirms that he was ]. His best-known achievement was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds.


He produced a number of trigonometrical relationships: He produced a number of trigonometrical relationships:
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Al Battani (c. 850- c. 923) was an Arab astronomer and mathematician (also spelled Al Batani, Latinized Albategnius, Albategni, Albatenius; Arabic أبو عبد الله محمد بن جابر بن سنان الحراني الصابي البتاني ; full name Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān ar-Raqqī al-Ḥarrani aṣ-Ṣabiʾ al-Battānī), born in Harran near Urfa. His epithet as-Sabi suggests that among his ancestry were members of the Sabian sect who worshiped the stars, however, his full name affirms that he was Muslim. His best-known achievement was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds.

He produced a number of trigonometrical relationships:

tan ⁡ a = sin ⁡ a cos ⁡ a {\displaystyle \tan a={\frac {\sin a}{\cos a}}}
sec ⁡ a = 1 + tan 2 ⁡ a {\displaystyle \sec a={\sqrt {1+\tan ^{2}a}}}

He also solved the equation sin x = a cos x discovering the formula:

sin ⁡ a = a 1 + a 2 {\displaystyle \sin a={\frac {a}{\sqrt {1+a^{2}}}}}

and used al-Marwazi's idea of Tangents ("shadows") to develop equations for calculating tangents and cotangents, compiling tables of them.

Al Battani worked in Syria, at ar-Raqqah and at Damascus, where he died. He was able to correct some of Ptolemy's results and compiled new tables of the Sun and Moon, long accepted as authoritative, discovered the movement of the Sun's apogee, treats the division of the celestial sphere, and introduces, probably independently of the 5th century indian astronomer Aryabhata, the use of sines in calculation, and partially that of tangents, forming the basis of modern trigonometry. He also calculated the values for the precession of the equinoxes (54.5" per year) and the inclination of Earth's axis (23° 35').

His most important work is the Kitāb az-Zīj ('the book of tables') with 57 chapters, which by way of Latin translation as De Motu Stellarum by Plato Tiburtinus (Plato of Tivoli) in 1116 (printed 1537 by Melanchthon, annotated by Regiomontanus), had great influence on European astronomy. A reprint appeared at Bologna in 1645. Plato's original manuscript is preserved at the Vatican; and the Escorial Library possesses in manuscript a treatise by Al Battani on astronomical chronology.

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