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