File:Al Sufi - Book of Fixed Stars - Ursa Major (The Great Bear) - Bodleian Library - Marsh 144(illustrationonly).jpg

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English: The Great Bear as depicted in Al Sufi's c. 964 Book of Fixed Stars. The familiar seven stars of the " Big Dipper", recorded by Ptolemy, are visible in the rump and tail, but notice they occur as a mirror-image of what we actually see because Al Sufi provided two images of each constellation, one as we see it in the night sky and one as seen here on a celestial globe. The image is from the c. 1009 copy in the Bodleian Library, the oldest copy extant.
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi  (903–986)  wikidata:Q11075 s:it:Autore:Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfi
 
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Azophi,
فارسی: عبدالرحمن صوفی
Description Persian astronomer, translator, mathematician, astrologer and poet
Date of birth/death 7 December 903 Edit this at Wikidata 25 May 986 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ray Shiraz
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Isfahan Edit this at Wikidata
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