Mathematician:Qusta ibn Luqa
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Mathematician
Syrian Melkite Christian physician, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and translator.
Known for translating many Greek texts in to Arabic.
Nationality
Syrian
History
- Born: 820 CE in Baalbek, Abbasid Caliphate, now Baalbek District, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
- Died: 912 CE in Armenia
Publications
- Risalah fī Auja Al Niqris
- Rislah fī al Nabidh
- Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl-kura al‐nujūmiyya
- Hayʾat al‐aflāk (work on Celestial Bodies)
- Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā ʿilm al‐nujūm
- Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā al‐hayʾa wa‐ḥarakāt al‐aflāk wa‐ʾl‐kawākib
- Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐asṭurlāb al‐kurī
- Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐kura dhāt al‐kursī
- The Introduction to Geometry (English Translation)
- Translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus
Also known as
Variously transliterated, for example Qust¸a ibn Luqa.
Latinised as Costa ben Luca or Constabulus
Full name: Qusta Ibn Luqa al-Ba'albakki
In Arabic: قُسطا ابن لُوقا البعلبکی