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Zīj
astronomical handbook by al-Khwārizmī
Also known as: “Zīj al-Sindhind”
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…set of astronomical tables (Zīj), based on a variety of Hindu and Greek sources. This work included a table of sines, evidently for a circle of radius 150 units. Like his treatises on algebra and Hindu-Arabic numerals, this astronomical work (or an Andalusian revision thereof) was translated into Latin.
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