Al-Battani - Quiz
A) The Julian Calendar B) al-Zīj al-Ṣābī C) Jalā' al-adhhān fī zīj al-Battānī D) De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
A) Edmund Halley B) Abraham ibn Ezra C) Al-Bīrūnī D) Christopher Clavius
A) Moses Maimonides B) Gersonides C) Immanuel Bonfils D) Abraham bar Hiyya
A) Christopher Clavius B) Abraham ibn Ezra C) Abraham bar Hiyya D) Moses Maimonides
A) 9 B) 12 C) 23 D) 16
A) The naming of lunar craters B) Reforms using Al-Battani's tables C) The discovery of the Moon's speed D) The Copernican Revolution
A) Galileo Galilei B) Christopher Clavius C) Johannes Kepler D) Tycho Brahe
A) Tiburtius B) Riccioli C) Albategnius D) Harran
A) Christopher Clavius B) Giovanni Battista Riccioli C) Edmund Halley D) Tycho Brahe
A) The eccentricity of the Sun B) The latitude of Antioch C) The orbits of Mercury and Venus D) The Moon's speed
A) Aleppo B) Raqqa C) Antioch D) Harran
A) Abraham bar Hiyya B) Plato Tiburtius C) Immanuel Bonfils D) Al-Bīrūnī
A) The Moon's speed B) The sidereal year C) The latitude of Raqqa D) The Sun's eccentricity
A) Tycho Brahe B) Copernicus C) Edmund Halley D) Christopher Clavius
A) Antioch B) Raqqa C) Harran D) Aleppo
A) Euclidean postulates B) Logarithmic scales C) Sines and tangents D) Algebraic fractions
A) Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi B) Kushyar Gilani C) Carl Brockelmann D) Al-Biruni
A) Table of celestial angles B) Table of sines C) Table of shadows D) Table of spherical arcs
A) The Earth being a sphere B) The curvature of the moon C) The variation in sunrise times D) The magnetic declination
A) Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi B) Al-Biruni C) Kushyar Gilani D) Ptolemy
A) MS Carullah 1499/3 B) MS Brockelmann 101/2 C) MS Istanbul 2020/5 D) MS Gilani 889/1
A) The manuscript was written in a different language B) It contradicts his known zīj C) The use of the term 'al-juyūb' for sines D) It was discovered too recently
A) Difference between longitude of the place and Mecca B) Difference between latitude and longitude C) The distance from the center of the earth D) The angle of the sun
A) Right triangle B) Hexagon C) Spherical triangle D) Rectangle
A) sec α = cos α B) sec α = 1 / cos α C) sec α = 1 + cos α D) sec α = sin α / cos α
A) Nicolaus Copernicus B) Ptolemy C) Al-Battani D) Al-Khwarizmi
A) Galactic model B) Heliocentric model C) Infinite universe model D) Geocentric model
A) He lived in the modern era B) He had access to satellite data C) His location was closer to the equator D) He used advanced telescopes
A) 5 degrees 12 minutes B) 10 degrees 30 minutes C) 16 degrees 47 minutes D) 20 degrees 00 minutes
A) 54.5 arcseconds per year B) 60 arcseconds per year C) 45 arcseconds per year D) 30 arcseconds per year
A) Meteor showers B) Lunar phases C) Annular solar eclipses D) Total solar eclipses
A) 366 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds B) 364 days, 12 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds C) 365 days, 6 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds D) 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, 24 seconds
A) Geographia B) Almagest C) Planetary Hypotheses D) Tetrabiblos
A) More than 10 minutes B) More than 2 hours C) More than 43.2 minutes D) More than 60 minutes
A) Italy B) Turkey C) Syria D) Iraq
A) Christopher Clavius B) Plato Tiburtinus C) Carlo Alfonso Nallino D) Thabit ibn Qurra
A) Sabian B) Jewish C) Zoroastrian D) Christian
A) Baghdad B) Raqqa C) Samarra D) Harran
A) Antioch B) Raqqa C) Baghdad D) Harran
A) Financial problems B) Illness C) Political exile D) To teach at a university
A) Antioch B) Raqqa C) Harran D) Qasr al-Jiss
A) 12th century B) 10th century C) 9th century D) 11th century
A) Declination B) Obliquity C) Precession D) Zenith
A) 1537 B) 880 C) 1134 D) 900
A) 40 B) 60 C) 57 D) 50
A) Bologna B) Vatican Library C) El Escorial D) Nuremberg
A) Almagest B) De motu stellarum C) Handy Tables D) Kitab az-Zij as-Sabi
A) Sasanian-Iranian B) Ptolemaic C) Modern D) Hindu
A) Telescope B) Quadrant C) Sundial D) Triquetrum
A) 1899 B) 1436 C) 1645 D) 1537
A) Precession B) Atmospheric refraction C) Earth's rotation D) Observation errors
A) El Escorial B) Nuremberg C) Al-Andalus D) Vatican Library
A) Robert of Ketton B) Regiomontanus C) Kushyar Gilani D) Plato Tiburtinus
A) Plato B) Aristotle C) Euclid D) Ptolemy
A) Chapter 25 B) Chapter 55 C) Chapter 10 D) Chapter 99
A) Ptolemy B) Ibn al-Nadim C) Abu as-Salt D) Al-Battani
A) Ṣābiʾ Zīj B) Arbaʻ maqālāt C) Kitāb fī miqdār al-ittiṣālāt D) Kitāb al-Arbaʿ maqālāt
A) Cairo Manuscripts B) Berlin Spr. 1840 C) Baghdad Archive D) İsmail Saib Library
A) Ibn al-Nadim B) Abu as-Salt C) Ptolemy D) The author of the Zīj
A) Gerard of Abbeville B) Carlo Alfonso Nallino C) Richard Dunthorne D) Plato Tiburtinus
A) Chemists B) Geophysicists C) Marine biologists D) Biologists
A) Tabule B) Almagesti C) De Scientia D) Opusculum
A) Paris B) London C) Milan D) Rome |
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