Thabit's Rule/Historical Note

Historical Note on Thabit's Rule
Thabit's Rule has been discovered and rediscovered several times during the course of history.

The first person on record to discuss it was, in his.

The Thabit pair $\tuple {17 \,296, 18 \, 416}$ was discovered by, who may well have also rediscovered this rule.

In $1636$ it was rediscovered by, who also rediscovered the Thabit pair $\tuple {17 \,296, 18 \, 416}$.

At around the same time, also rediscovered it, and also rediscovered the Thabit pair $\tuple {9 \, 363 \, 584, 9 \, 437 \, 056}$.

These three remain the only known Thabit pairs.