Mathematician:Qusta ibn Luqa

Mathematician
Syrian Melkite Christian physician, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and translator.

Known for translating many Greek texts in to Arabic.

Nationality
Syrian

History

 * Born: 820 CE in Baalbek, Abbasid Caliphate, now Baalbek District, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
 * Died: 912 CE in Armenia

Publications

 * Risalah fī Auja Al Niqris
 * Rislah fī al Nabidh
 * Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl-kura al‐nujūmiyya
 * Hayʾat al‐aflāk (work on Celestial Bodies)
 * Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā ʿilm al‐nujūm
 * Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā al‐hayʾa wa‐ḥarakāt al‐aflāk wa‐ʾl‐kawākib
 * Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐asṭurlāb al‐kurī
 * Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐kura dhāt al‐kursī
 * The Introduction to Geometry (English Translation)


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Also known as
Variously transliterated, for example Qust¸a ibn Luqa.

Latinised as Costa ben Luca or Constabulus

Full name: Qusta Ibn Luqa al-Ba'albakki

In Arabic: قُسطا ابن لُوقا البعلبکی