Hi, I'm Reece and this is my user page. I am now back from my recent wikibreak.
If you have any comments or queries, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page, I'll be more than happy to help. Or if you have anything you need to ask in a more confidential manner, email is always an option.
If you have been redirected to this page whilst looking for Urbane, i am that person. I was usurped a couple of months ago and now use only the one name across all of the wikimedia projects (namely here, wikibooks and meta).
The Original Barnstar
This is for the neat sorting of the filmographies.
82.3.253.199 20:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC) 23:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكبkitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.
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