Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī

Al-ʿAbbās ibn Saʿid al-Jawharī (Arabic: العباس بن سعيد الجوهري; c. 800 – c. 860), known as Al-Jawhari, was a geometer who worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and for in a short time in Damascus, where he made astronomical observations. Born (and probably dying) in Baghdad, he was probably of Iranian origin.^{[1] [page needed ]} His most important work was his commentary on Euclid's Elements , which contained nearly 50 additional propositions and an attempted mathematical proof of the parallel postulate.^{[citation needed ]}

Described as having superb knowledge of Greek, which was unusual for a Muslim scholar), Al-Jawhari is credited with a translation into Arabic of the Indian polymath Shanaq al-Hindi's Book of Poisons.^[2]

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• Sabra, Abdelhamid I. (1973). "Al-Jawharī, Al-'Abbās Ibn Sa'īd". Dictionary of Scientific Biography . Vol. 7. pp. 79–80.
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (November 1999), "al-Abbas ibn Said Al-Jawhari", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive , University of St Andrews

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