Abu Ma'shar
Abu Ma'shar
787-886
Arab astrologer, also known as Albumasar or Albumazar, who influenced Western thinking on cosmology during the Middle Ages. In his Introductorium in astronomiam and De magnis coniunctionibus, he maintained that the world was created when the seven planets were in conjunction with Aries, and predicted that it would end when the same phenomenon occurred in Pisces. Translated into Latin and later vernacular tongues, his works were widely circulated in Europe and he became the inspiration for literary depictions of astrologers by several minor authors of the early modern era.
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Madan , Ma'dan(Marsh Arabs)
PRONUNCIATION: mah-DAHN
ALTERNATE NAMES: Marsh Arabs
LOCATION: Iraq (marshes at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers)… ma non troppo , ma •aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Beka… Adelard Of Bath , Adelard of Bath
Adelard of Bath
(b. Bath. England; fl. 1116–1142)
mathematics, astronomy.
Among the foremost of medieval English translators and natu… Neogene , Neogene The later of the two periods which comprise the Tertiary sub-Era, preceded by the Palaeogene, followed by the Quaternary, and dated at 23.3–1… Cretaceous , Cretaceous •factious, fractious •anxious • captious •precious, semi-precious •infectious •conscientious, contentious, licentious, pretentious, senten… Givetian , Givetian
1. An age in the Middle Devonian Epoch preceded by the Eifelian, followed by the Frasnian, and dated at 380.8–377.4 Ma ( Harland et al., 198…
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