Jabir ibn Aflah

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Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah (أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, born 1100 in Seville, Spain – died 1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician and inventor whose works, once translated into Latin (under his Latinized name Geber), influenced later European mathematicians and astronomers. He invented an observational instrument known as the torquetum, a mechanical device to transform between spherical coordinate systems.

See also

• List of Arab scientists and scholars

References

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