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Sinjar
Mesopotamian town on a plain where al-Ma'mun's astronomers measured a degree of the meridian.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q955690
Appears in
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The Islamic Golden Age
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Al-Maʾmun’s astronomers measure the Earth
c. 212 AH
Sources
Book
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Book
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty
