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Al-Qanun al-Mas'udi
The Qanun al-Mas'udi is an encyclopaedic treatise on astronomy, mathematics and geography written in Arabic by al-Biruni and dedicated to the Ghaznavid sultan Mas'ud I in the 1030s. It covers chronology, trigonometry, the motions of the sun, moon and planets and the coordinates of places, and is one of the major astronomical works of medieval Islam.
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