Thabit Pair/Examples/17,296-18,416/Historical Note

Historical Note on Thabit pair $17 \,296$ and $18 \,416$
Most of the literature on the subject states that the Thabit pair $\tuple {17 \,296, 18 \, 416}$ was discovered by.

However, as it is generated by Thabit's Rule for the accessibly low number $n = 4$, it is implausible to suppose that it had not in fact been discovered previously by himself.

Hence it would be more accurate to say that rediscovered' it.

In $1636$ it was again rediscovered, this time by, who also rediscovered Thabit's Rule.