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Saghani Ostorlabi, astronomer.
Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi, i. e., the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv, was a Persian astronomer. He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990 AD.
An inventor and maker of instruments, he worked in Sharaf al-dawla's observatory and, perhaps, constructed the instruments which were used there. Worked on the Trisection of the angle.
Source: wikipedia.org
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