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