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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
al-Farghani's Accomplishments
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Despite the potentially reputation-damaging error in calculation made by al-Farghani in the case of a canal, he is better known for other a...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Al-Farghani's Mistake
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While expanding the urban settlements along the Tigris, the 9th century Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil needed a canal to bring water to a ne...
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