-
curves to the west,
dividing Alpetragius from
Arzachel crater. To the west-northwest is the crater-like
outline of
Alpetragius X, now
flooded by the mare...
- البطروجي, died c. 1204),
known in the West by the
Latinized name of
Alpetragius, was an Arab
astronomer and qadi in al-Andalus. Al-Biṭrūjī was the first...
- the
crater Ptolemaeus to the north. To the
southwest is the
smaller Alpetragius. The
crater name was
approved by the IAU in 1935. The
surface of Alphonsus...
-
hypothesizing that the
planet Mercury moves in an
elliptic orbit,
while Alpetragius proposed a
planetary model that
abandoned the equant,
epicycle and eccentric...
-
Averroes (Ibn Rushd),
Thebit (Thabit Ibn Qurra),
Arzachel (Al-Zarqali), and
Alpetragius (Al-Bitruji), but he does not show
awareness of the
existence of any...
- Umbriel,
among other achievements. L****ell lies to the west of the
crater Alpetragius and
southwest of Alphonsus. The
interior of L****ell has been flooded...
-
Averroes (Ibn Rushd),
Thebit (Thābit ibn Qurra),
Arzachel (Al-Zarqali), and
Alpetragius (Al-Bitruji), but he does not show
awareness of the
existence of any...
- (Averroës), Ibn al-Kammad, Ibn al-Haim al-Ishbili and Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi (
Alpetragius). In the 12th century,
Gerard of
Cremona translated al-Zarqali's works...
- (d. 1185), Ibn
Rushd (Averroes; d. 1198), and Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (
Alpetragius; d. 1204). All
lived around the same time and
focused their astronomical...
- not
officially recognized by the IAU. To the
northeast is the
crater Alpetragius, and to the east is Thebit. North,
Gerald (2007).
Observing the moon:...
