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