The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 644 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 41st most number of Astronomers behind Slovenia, and Tajikistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (770 - 874)
With an HPI of 57.76, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi is the most famous Turkmen Astronomer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Ahmad ibn 'Abdallah al-Marwazi, known as Habash al-Hasib (Persian: حبش الحاسب, lit. 'Abyssinian calculator', died c. 869) was a Persian astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv in Khorasan, who was the first to describe the trigonometric ratios tangent, and cotangent. Al-Biruni who cited Habash in his work, expanded his astronomical tables. Habash al-Hasib flourished in Baghdad, and died a centenarian some time between 864–874 possibly in Abbasid Samarra. The title "Habash" (Abbyssian) may refer to dark skin coulor. He worked under two Abbasid caliphs, al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim. Habash al-Hasib developed a trigonometric algorithm to solve problems related to parallax, which was later rediscovered by Johannes Kepler in 1609 and it is now known as Kepler's equation. Habash is the father of the astronomer Abu Ja'far ibn Habash.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Turkmen astronomers born between 770 and 770. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Turkmen astronomers include Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi.
