page_title: Al-Farghani
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Farghani
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 5 Meter hohes Alfraganus-Denkmal aus Bronze und Granit in der Nähe des Nilometers, Insel Roda, Kairo, Ägypten. Das Werk wurde 2007 vom usbekischen Bildhauer Djalalitdin Tursunovich Ravshan Mirtadjiev (*1954, Джалалитдин Турсунович Равшан Миртаджиев, جلال الدين روشن مرتاجييف) geschaffen und ist ein Geschenk Usbekistans an Ägypten. English: 5 meters high Alfraganus memorial from bronze and granite near the nilometer, Roda island, Cairo, Egypt. The memorial was created 2007 by the Uzbek sculptor Djalalitdin Tursunovich Ravshan Mirtadjiev (*1954, Джалалитдин Турсунович Равшан Миртаджиев, روشن جلال الدين مرتاجييف) and is a present of Uzbekistan to Egypt. العربية: تمثال أحمد الفرغاني الفلكي المسلم ولد في فرغانة بأوزبكستان وعاش في بغداد والقاهرة وأشرف على بناء مقياس النيل بجزيرة الروضة. التمثال طوله 5 أمتار وهو إهداء من أوزبكستان لمصر. مكانه هو بالقرب من مقياس النيل بجزيرة الروضة في القاهرة.
context_page_description: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī. also known as Alfraganus in the West, was an astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. The lunar crater Alfraganus is named after him. Copernicus is said to have used al-Farghani’s calculation of the diameter of the Earth in his own calculations.
context_section_description: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī. (800/805-870) also known as Alfraganus in the West, was an astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. The lunar crater Alfraganus is named after him. Copernicus is said to have used al-Farghani’s calculation of the diameter of the Earth in his own calculations.
caption: The statue of al-Farghani in Cairo, Egypt
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