For the 8th/9th-century Arabic alchemist, see Jabir ibn Hayyan. For the 13th/14th-century Latin alchemist, see pseudo-Geber. For other uses, see Geber.
Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
Fictional portrait by Eulogia Merle for the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (2011)
Born
1100 CE
Seville, al-Andalus
Died
1150 CE
Academic work
Era
Islamic Golden Age
Main interests
Astronomy, Mathematics
Notable works
Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭi (Correction of the Almagest)
Notable ideas
Torquetum
Influenced
Averroes, Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi
Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ (Arabic: أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, Latin: Geber/Gebir; 1100–1150) was an Arab[1][2] Muslim astronomer and mathematician from Seville, who was active in 12th century al-Andalus. His work Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭi (Correction of the Almagest) influenced Islamic, Jewish, and Christian astronomers.[3]
^Schlager, Neil; Lauer, Josh (2001). Science and Its Times: 700-1449. Gale Group. ISBN 9780787639341.
^Publishing, Britannica Educational (2013). Portugal and Spain. Britanncia Educational Publishing. ISBN 9781615309931.
Abū Muḥammad JābiribnAflaḥ (Arabic: أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, Latin: Geber/Gebir; 1100–1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer and mathematician from Seville...
American businessman Jabir Husain (born 1945), Indian politician Jabiribn Abd Allah (607–697), Arab companion of Muhammad JabiribnAflah (1100–1150), Spanish-Arab...
to Jabiribn Hayyan JabiribnAflah (1100–1150), Spanish-Arab astronomer and mathematician Geber (crater), a crater on the Moon named after Jabiribn Aflah...
that the first torquetum was built by JabiribnAflah, though there is conflicting evidence that suggests that Jabir simply inspired the invention of the...
Ibn Hűd, the first accurate lunar model by Ibn al-Shatir, the invention of the torquetum by JabiribnAflah, the invention of the universal astrolabe and...
mechanical geared astrolabe by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, and the torquetum by JabiribnAflah. According to Simon Singh, Muslim mathematicians also made important...
trigonometry was taken from the twelfth-century work of the Andalusi scholar JabiribnAflah. Leonhard Euler published a series of important memoirs on spherical...
the works of Thabit ibn Qurra and Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the works of Arzachel, JabiribnAflah, the Banū Mūsā, Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam, Abu al-Qasim...
taken directly[dubious – discuss] from the twelfth-century work of JabiribnAflah otherwise known as Geber, as noted in the sixteenth century by Gerolamo...
astronomer (d. 1160) Hillin of Falmagne, archbishop of Trier (d. 1169) JabiribnAflah, Arab astronomer and mathematician (d. 1150) John of Meda, Italian...
the work of al-Zarqali and the works of JabiribnAflah, the Banu Musa brothers, Abu Kamil, Abu al-Qasim, and Ibn al-Haytham (including the Book of Optics)...
Adhayna ibn al-Hârith [ar] Adî ibn Hâtim at-Tâî Aflahibn Abî Qays [ar] Ahmad ibn Hafs [ar] Ahmar Abu `Usayb [ar] Ahmar ibn Jazi [ar] Ahmar ibn Mazan ibn Aws [ar]...
Hervé de Bourg-Dieu, French biblical scholar Ibn Masal, Fatimid general, official and vizier JabiribnAflah, Andalusian astronomer (b. 1100) Kjeld (or...
Thabit ibn Qurra and Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the works of al-Zarqali, JabiribnAflah, the Banu Musa, Abu Kamil, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, and Ibn al-Haytham...
Hervé de Bourg-Dieu, French biblical scholar Ibn Masal, Fatimid general, official and vizier JabiribnAflah, Andalusian astronomer (b. 1100) Kjeld (or...
Innes Abram Fedorovich Ioffe Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev Imre Izsak JabiribnAflah (Geber) Josiah Edward Spurr (Spurr crater) Michael Jackson Zacharias...
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