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al-Battani

al-Battani

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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "al-Battani".

Oct 28, 2026

Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
32:02
Ibn al-Nafis mapped pulmonary circulation.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
32:05
Al-Batani measured the solar year.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
32:07
Ibn al-Shatir, pre-Copernican astronomy.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
32:14
It's not going to cost him anything.
Abdullah Hakim QuickGUEST
40:58
Ibn Zuhar, Avanzoa.
Abdullah Hakim QuickGUEST
41:01
Ibn Sina, Al-Bitruji, Al-Petrajius, Al-Haytham, Ibn Al-Haytham, Al-Hazan, Al-Kindi, they said Al-Kindi, Abul-Qasas, they said was Al-Zahrawi, Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Agrismas, Al-Battani, Al-Batajanus, Al-Razi, they said Rasis, Jabir ibn Hayyan, they used the word Jabir.
Abdullah Hakim QuickGUEST
41:33
And Umar ibn Khayyam, they changed Umar with an Ayn.
Abdullah Hakim QuickGUEST
41:37
They changed it to O.
Simone CollinsHOST
12:12
Al-Jazari invented flow regulators and feedback control.
Simone CollinsHOST
12:16
Raqqa invented a major glass factory with 300 different glass recipes being used, or most amazingly, Al-Battani discovered relativity a millennia before Einstein." Um, and he goes on to describe too-
Malcolm CollinsHOST
12:30
These are, at first I was like, well, th- see, the people didn't notice 'cause he's making dumb claims, like, that just don't matter, and then it's like relativity, evolution.
Malcolm CollinsHOST
12:38
Like, what?
Ben PrinceNARRATOR
57:15
In astronomy, they made careful observations.
Ben PrinceNARRATOR
57:18
In the middle of the ninth century, Albategnius, a Syrian prince, improved the value of eccentricity of the sun's orbit, observed the motion of the moon's apses, and thought he detected a smaller progression of the sun's apses.
Ben PrinceNARRATOR
57:30
His tables were much more accurate than Ptolemy's.
Ben PrinceNARRATOR
57:33
Abu Ifa, in the tenth century, seems to have discovered the moon's variation.

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