Al-Adami
أبو علي الحسين بن محمد الآدمي
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Born	fl.c. 925
Academic work
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Main interests	Maker of scientific instruments
Notable works	Kitab takhlTt al-sa v at wa inhiraf al-hTtan wa’l-zilalat wa alTad al-sumut

ʿAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī (Arabic:أبو علي الحسين بن محمد الآدمي; flourished inBaghdadc. 925) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on verticalsundials,Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials^[1][2] (Kitab takhlTt al-sa v at wa inhiraf al-hTtan wa’l-zilalat wa alTad al-sumut).^[3] Themanuscript, which is held in theBibliothèque nationale de France, contains tables that enabled the drawing of lines to show any desired angle oflatitude.^[1] The surviving copy of al-Adami's 10th century manuscript (Arabe 2506,1 (fols. 1r-62r) dates from the 15th century, which King has suggested was written either by al-Adami or by a contemporary, Sa'id ibn Khafif al-Samarqandi. The tables onfolios. 31v–33v were intended to be used in the construction of a vertical sundial.^[4]

According to the Iranianpolymathal-Biruni, al-Adami was the first to demonstrate solar and lunareclipses using a "disc of eclipses". Al-Adami was named in theFihrist, written by the 10th century scholarIbn al-Nadīm.^[1]

The astronomerIbn al-Adami, who is thought by scholars to have been al-Adami's son, wroteNaẓm al-ʿiqd (now lost), azīj that used information obtained from theSindhind, an Indian source translated intoArabic by the 8th centurymathematician andastronomerIbrāhīm al-Fazārī. TheNaẓm al-ʿiqd was first published in 949/950.^[1]

• 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)
• King, David A. (2004). Daiber, H.; Pingree, D. (eds.).In Synchrony With The Heavens: Studies In Astronomical Timekeeping And Instrumentation In Medieval Islamic Civilization. Islamic Philosophy, Theology, And Science. Vol. 1: The Call of the Muezzin. Leiden:Brill Publishers.ISBN 90-04-12233-8.
• Rosenfeld, B. A.; Ekmeleddin, Ihsanoğlu (2003).Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th–19th c.). Series of Studies and Sources on (the) History of Science. Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA).ISBN 92-9063-127-9.

• Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed. (1994).The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Vol. 2. Leiden; New York:Brill Publishers. p. 963.ISBN 978-90040-9-599-1.

• Manuscript Arabe 2506 fromGallica, which contains the unique copy of al-Adami's treatise on vertical sundials

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• Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate

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