8th century in science, the Glossary
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Al-Mansur
Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور‎; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr (المنصور) was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 CE – 775 CE) succeeding his brother al-Saffah.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
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Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
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Electional astrology
Electional astrology, also known as event astrology, is a branch found in most traditions of astrology according to which a practitioner decides the most appropriate time for an event based on the astrological auspiciousness of that time.
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Horoscope
A horoscope (or other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart) is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth.
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Horoscopic astrology
Horoscopic astrology is a form of astrology that uses a horoscope, a visual representation of the heavens, for a specific moment in time to interpret the purported meaning behind the alignment of the planets at that moment.
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List of solar eclipses in the Middle Ages
This is a list of selected solar eclipses in the Middle Ages, in particular those with historical significance.
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Lunar eclipses by century
This article gives statistics for lunar eclipses grouped by century.
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Mashallah ibn Athari
Māshāʾallāh ibn Atharī (ما شاء الله إبن أثري), known as Mashallah, was an 8th century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Naubakht
Nobakht Ahvazi (نوبخت اهوازى), also spelled Naubakht Ahvaz and Naubakht, along with his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province, Iran) who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries AD.
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
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Science in the medieval Islamic world
Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in Persia and beyond, spanning the period roughly between 786 and 1258.
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Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
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0
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity.
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8th century
The 8th century is the period from 701 (represented by the Roman numerals DCCI) through 800 (DCCC) in accordance with the Julian Calendar.
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See also
8th-century books
- Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr
- 8th century in science
- Bardo Thodol
- Beowulf
- Brut y Saeson
- Hadith
- Halachot Pesukot
- Man'yōshū
- Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai
- Rikkokushi
- She'iltot
- The Great Dharani Sutra
- Theosophy of Tübingen
- Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era
- Umm al-kitab (Shi'i book)
- Zuqnin Chronicle