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ALBUMAZAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBUMAZAR  , more properly

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ABU-MAASCHAR (8o5-885), Arab astronomer, was born at
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Balkh, flourished at Bagdad, and died at Wasid in Central
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Asia . His
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principal
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works are: De Magnis Conjunctionibus (Augsburg, 1489); Introductorium in Astronomiam (Venice, r5o6); and
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Flores Astrologici (Augsburg, 1488) . He maintained in the first that the
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world, created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of Pisces . See Biog . Universelle (Jourdain) ; Lalande, Bibliographie Astronomique; Poggendorff, Biog. literarisches Handworterbuch; Houzeau, Bibl . A stronomique .

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