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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
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born at
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Balkh, flourished at
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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 (
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Augsburg, 1489); Introductorium in Astronomiam (
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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
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planets were in
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conjunction in the first degree of
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Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of
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Pisces . See Biog . Universelle (Jourdain) ;
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Lalande, Bibliographie Astronomique;
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Poggendorff, Biog. literarisches Handworterbuch; Houzeau, Bibl . A stronomique .

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