Al-Adami

ʿAbū ʿAlī al‐Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al‐Ādamī (Arabic: أبو علي الحسين بن محمد الآدمي; flourished in Baghdad c. 925) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials.[1][2] According to the Iranian polymath al-Biruni, al-Adami was the first to demonstrate solar and lunar eclipses using a "disc of eclipses". Al-Adam is named in the scholar Ibn al‐Nadīm's 10th century work Fihrist.[1]

Not to be confused with Ibn al-Adami, who is presumed to be al-Adami's son.

References
  1. Jamil Ragep & Bolt 2007, p. 12.
  2. Dodge 1970, p. 663.

Sources
  • Dodge, Baynard, ed. (1970). The Fihrist of al-Nadim: a Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture. Translated by Dodge, Baynard. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-02310-2-925-4.
  • Jamil Ragep, F.; Bolt, Marvin (2007). "Ādamī: Abū ʿAlī al‐Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al‐Ādamī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. ISBN 9780387310220. (PDF version)
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