context: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi is Abu al-Husayn Abd al-Rahman bin Omar bin Sahl al-Sufi al-Razi, one of the most famous astronomers (291 AH - 376 AH / 903 - 986 CE). A Persian astronomer [1] [2] [3] was a Muslim from the tenth century CE. Born in Al-Rai in Persia on 9 Muharram 291 AH (corresponding to: 7 December 903AD), he contacted the state of Al-Bohaihi. He was one of those who said that the earth is round after Eratosthenes, who had proven it spherical BC, and he was one of the leading astronomers. It is one of the greatest astronomers of Islam, in the words of historian George Sarton. He was a friend of the caliph Al-Buhayi, the state supporter, who took it astronomer and a teacher for him to know the positions of different stars and planets and the movement of astronomical bodies. The Archives of the State built a special observatory for the Sufi in Shiraz, which helped him in his astronomical achievements. His language was Persian, but he wrote his scientific books in Arabic as it was the language of science in the golden age of Islam during that period. [3] Al-Sufi died on 8 Muharram 376 AH (corresponding to May 25, 986 CE), at the age of 83.
question: Who developed the book of pictures of the forty-eight planets?
answers.text: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi