al-Ḥanafī, ʿAlam al-Dīn

al-Ḥanafī, ʿAlam al-Dīn

▪ Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and engineer
born 1178?, Egypt
died 1251, Egypt

      Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and engineer. He wrote a treatise on Euclid's postulates, built water mills and fortifications on the Orontes River, and constructed the second-oldest existing Arabic celestial globe.

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